The music of Glasgow born TIPPI sounds like something of an anachronism in this day and age. Her feisty but guileless bubble-gum rock ‘n’ roll is Total Pop of the highest order and recalls a far more innocent musical era before cynicism and irony got its grubby hands on everything.
Tracks like ‘Boy’, ‘Fun’ and ‘Misguided' recall the hazy guitar rush of late 80s/early 90s power pop from 'indie' groups The Primitives and The Darling Buds. Elsewhere she is able to exercise her riffing rockier inclinations on ‘Daddy’s Little Girl’ (Led Zeppelin) and ‘Some Things Never Change’ (Steppenwolf), casting her more in the light of The Go Gos and The Bangles. ‘Nothing More To Say’ drops the baton briefly sounding a bit too American FM radio for its own good. Unusually though for an album of this kind even the slower numbers manage to avoid over-sweetening the mix; neither ‘Pulled The Trigger’ nor closer ‘Talking To My Angel’ can shake the effervescent pop sensibilities.
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Apparently TIPPI is now part of a new indie girl band going by the name of The Hedrons and so her solo career is in check for a while. On the evidence of her tune riddled eponymous debut – which was first released in November of 2004 – they shouldn’t be short of a song or two.
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