Dafni's third album is a collection of 13 light and undemanding songs spanning a diversity styles, mostly centred around typical country music topics like loving, cheating and dreaming.
There's a country hoedown opener ("Dimes"), sultry Latin swing number('Let's Pretend')and even a slice of Cajun ('Bottom Of The Well'). The latter is the only cover song - the original being by Tracy Huffman. "Down and Dirty" was-co-written with Sarah Stanley, the rest are all Dafnì's work.
'Down And Dirty' is saucy when it should be raunchier (sample lyric:"Light the candle if you can handle"). Patsy Cline gets a namecheck here but Dafni sounds more like Doris Day than the country icon.
The band are slick with most of the backing tracks apparently caught live in a single day's recording. The tone is fresh but unoriginal.
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Joshua Grange's graceful pedal steel guitar on the wistful refrain of 'Broken Letter' makes this a standout track. For jazzier, jokey numbers Dafni's voice simply doesn't have enough personality or range to carry them off convincingly.
She's more comfortable singing cheesy lines like "I fancy you, I think you're swell" ('Honey Honey') or "I don't give a hoot" ('Carried Away').
All in all the album's overall flavour is too wholesome by far and as sickly sweet as home-baked cherry pie.
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