- Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
- Genre: 'Folk'
- Release Date: '19.10.21.'
Our Rating:
This is Annie Booth's second solo album and you may know her as once of the singers with Slow Weather and Mt Doubt or for her collaborations with Wojtek The Bear Or Out Of The Swim.
This opens with Cocoon with fragile vocals and a slow piano and strings backing that's quite sumptuous as she tries to break out of the straight jacket her partner has been putting her in.
Soho takes us to a piano bar where sorrows are being slowly but surely drowned, as the life being described collapses around her while her love waits for her in Soho, for this spare rumination of the nature of desire and the pain it sometimes causes, the violins are rather beautiful adornment to the piano.
Nowhere has a fuller sound for Annie's crystalline vocals to take us into this tale of the aftermath of a fight when you are begging for some form of apology for the hurt and harm caused.
Ruby is a plea for more time and a bit of space to be yourself once more over a very laid-back tune this is chilled out folk that sounds like something Beth Orton might sing when not making dance music.
Nightvan sounds like it was recorded in the back of the van as it was parked in a layby, it has a claustrophobic edge to it.
Tropic has a fireside acoustic guitar strummed as if sitting on a beach in the middle of the night with vocals that remind me of Lucy Rose as Annie just want you to talk to her and tell her what she needs to hear.
Wave has gentle cymbal crashes that feel like a very gentle swell as another tale of the ashes of a love affair unfolds, she rolls gently away from another lover.
Collector is a very gentle song of thanks for the collectors out there as the sumptuous strings for the backing for the sparse drums and cymbals as Annie pours out her heart again as the reason, she's talking about the Collector becomes clearer.
Valley feels a bit like one of Rickie Lee Jones songs, but I can't say which one as I am no expert on her music. There's a fragility in this song that draws me into the world it's creating.
Embers has a very late-night feel of Annie gently pouring her heart out at the Embers of what was once a relationship full of hope that's now just turned to ashes in the fireplace.
The album closes with Fallow Year that could easily be a long-lost Nick Drake tune from the Pink Moon era, even if the lyrics are so sparse as to form their own Fallow Year.
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