Summer dancing

"A collaboration between English producer and multi-instrumentalist Andy Lewis and seminal U.K. folk vocalist Judy Dyble, the aptly named Summer Dancing delivers a balmy set of lush, electronic dream pop with flourishes of pastoral English folk and Swinging London-era psych-pop. Lewis, a popular Brit-pop-era DJ and former bass player for Paul Weller, clearly has an affinity for British psychedelia - the overall vibe here is as groovy as it is bucolic - and his ornate, yet tasteful arrangements provide a sympathetic framework for Dyble's evocative lyrics and warm delivery ... Summer Dancing is at its most compelling when Lewis and Dyble blur the lines between rural magic-folk and urban sunshine pop, as they do splendidly on standouts like "My Electric Chauffeur," "Summers of Love," and the sentimental title cut".

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"Burrow through folk-rock's foundations, and you'll find Judy Dyble, an early singer in Fairport Convention (...) and the group that burst, kaleidoscopically, into King Crimson. Producer Andy Lewis, meanwhile, has played on some of Paul Weller's recent sonic excursions. Together, this odd couple have made a fittingly odd, sweetly sunlit album, full of psychedelic pastoralism edging nervously into atmospheric electronics, sounding like a shyer take on cult late 60s bands such as the United States of America".

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"There's immense charm amid the inherent waywardness, and the distant echoes of psychedelia are unexpectedly beguiling. It does sound at times like the runaway child of an underground London club circa 1966, but Dyble's voice still carries guile and sensitivity, and there's conviction and intrigue tooamid the swirling mists of sound in which Lewis shrouds her fragility - "bucolic melancholia", as the producer himself describes it. Humour, too, not just in Dyble's lyrics (...), but in the retro moods and shifting effects which permeate the whole. Knowingly nostalgic, it's an album with a very strong sense of itself".