Post by Owen Y on May 18, 2018 17:51:21 GMT 12
I missed Nadia Reid's show at the refurb'd Hollywood Theatre last year, after which she undertook a 14-date UK-European Tour.
Finally I got around to properly acquainting myself with this 2014/15 debut LP picked up at the Powerstation gig in April.
I'm really taken by this, it's a sonic treat.
Nice word craft, belies her young age & enough abstraction to draw the listener in.
Having heard her 'folksy' acoustic style before, I didn't expect the big, spacious but spare & sympathetic production (Ben Edwards, Lyttleton).
I didn't expect a judicious backdrop of drum, cymbal swells & double bass accompaniment. And Sam Taylor's electric guitar with generous doses of ambient tremolo & fuzz effects.
Of course, Nadia is a most capable singing voice, so assured, intent, intense - with control, range & a feather-lightness of vocal touch.
PS. This LP, which has no indication of country of manufacture, is very clean, vinyl-wise & sonically.
(Spunk Records/Scissor Tail Records)
Finally I got around to properly acquainting myself with this 2014/15 debut LP picked up at the Powerstation gig in April.
I'm really taken by this, it's a sonic treat.
Nice word craft, belies her young age & enough abstraction to draw the listener in.
Having heard her 'folksy' acoustic style before, I didn't expect the big, spacious but spare & sympathetic production (Ben Edwards, Lyttleton).
I didn't expect a judicious backdrop of drum, cymbal swells & double bass accompaniment. And Sam Taylor's electric guitar with generous doses of ambient tremolo & fuzz effects.
Of course, Nadia is a most capable singing voice, so assured, intent, intense - with control, range & a feather-lightness of vocal touch.
PS. This LP, which has no indication of country of manufacture, is very clean, vinyl-wise & sonically.
(Spunk Records/Scissor Tail Records)
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