Tall fiddler
Michael Cleveland (f. 1980)
Emneord
Anmeldelser (4)
God Is In The TV
d. 6. apr. 2020
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Matt Hobbs
d. 6. apr. 2020
"As the album title suggests, Harvieu fearlessly embraces the unpredictability of her life up to now. Produced by the supportive Romeo Stodart of The Magic Numbers, whose friendship has been a major stepping stone in her career recovery, the sophomore LP showcases Harvieu's part heartfelt part whimsical lyrics much more - as tracks were co-written on the previous record - accompanied by an effortlessly vigorous voice and a blues-pop fusion (with it's use of organs, orchestra and guitars)".
The observer
d. 5. apr. 2020
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Tara Joshi
d. 5. apr. 2020
"Working with Romeo Stodart of the Magic Numbers, she has created woozy, cinematic songs that are full of yearning and vulnerability - Teenage Mascara possesses a plush wave of harmonies, Yes Please is beguilingly delicate, and the otherwise conventional This Is How You Make Me Feel has a spacy production. Her rich voice remains the star, though, stopping the album from ever sounding twee and schmaltzy".
Louder than war
d. 12. apr. 2020
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Tim Cooper
d. 12. apr. 2020
"It's stirring stuff, especially when combined with Harvieu's vampish image, paying homage to the screen sirens of yesteryear as filtered through David Lynch, but there is more than mere seduction at work, in the tradition of a Hollywood femme fatale. Listened to with the knowledge of what she's been through, the album is also a compelling diary of a struggle with self-belief, a release of pent-up tension and a celebration of liberation and survival. And, in its stirring torch song finale My Body She Is Alive, a new beginning".
Mojo
2020 May
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Victoria Segal
2020 May
"[After "some very dark years"] comes a record that propels Harvieu back under the spotlight, positioning her - elbow on the piano, candelabra at hand - as a grown-up pop force with weaponised survival instincts. "Do you know how it feels to be terrified?" she sings on the trembling "This Is Our Love", and Revel In the Drama clearly has experience in that area - it's there in "Spirit Me Away"'s showstopping orchestral maelstrom or the closing "My Body She Is Alive". Yet even at its most downbeat and damaged, this music gleams with a steely determination to be heard".