When I'm alone

"Harvey's ethereal, wistful, folk-meets-dream pop ballads effortlessly captures the hearts of pensive, lovestruck sad girls everywhere. She's floated swiftly to the forefront of the indie pop vanguard, but she isn't a one-trick pony. Or puppy ... Harvey's debut [album], 'When I'm Alone', is an idyllic picnic set within a sonic landscape of verdant, pastoral ease and piney, mountain folklore. It's an intimate, meditative glimpse into her diary, blanketed in saccharine candy coating and wrapped up with a delicate satin bow. The 12-track album is interwoven with golden threads of fantasy, too, with allusions to film and an overarching 'Twilight: New Moon' influence that likens Harvey to protagonist Bella Swan ... Though Harvey's internal strife doesn't fully resolve on this record, she becomes her own hero character, searching internally for healing. This is just the beginning for Harvey, and though she proclaims this album to be her "Bella era", no heartbreak, or vampire, can get in her way".

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"Perfect pop songs are normally the purview of the three-minute and under crowd. So Atlanta based Girlpuppy's (aka Becca Harvey) "Destroyer" clocking in well over the five-minute mark is decidedly out of bounds. It's also every bit the perfect pop song and one of the best on offer this year. The song's driving rhythm effortlessly shifts from first, to second, to a drum driven third gear and never lets go. Harvey is at her offbeat best on her debut LP, When I'm Alone, when her songs have a little more spring in their step and something unusual to say. With the exception of "Destroyer," the latter half of the album drags in places and Harvey's tendency to longer running times does those moments no favors. But an earlier song on the slower side ("Somewhere") benefits from a string arrangement and a classic Elliott Smith-inspired melody. Fortunately though, for most of When I'm Alone a more energetic vibe prevails".

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"It [is] easy to pigeonhole Harvey into the genre and subculture of "sad girl" indie rock ... But (...) the "sad girl" is also angry, hurt, nostalgic, compassionate and trying her best to make sense of the world around her. She's riddled with contradictions and nuances, and sadness is just one part of them. When I'm Alone shows Harvey looking inward, what she describes as the "internal battles with things I've done, rather than reflecting and blaming everyone else ... When I'm Alone was made for cold weather, changing seasons and deep feelings of introspection that will continue to evolve the longer you listen".

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