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Approved: Seeräuber Jenny
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 14 September 2010
Fran Barker is someone special.
This is something I was reminded of a couple of weeks ago while sorting through a pile of papers in my flat. About half way through the pile, I happened upon a demo CD by Seeräuber Jenny, aka Fran Barker, and suddenly I realised why emails I’d recently received about her debut single had triggered a niggling feeling in the back of my mind that I’d heard of her before. This CD was out on its own, away from all the other demo CDs because, as soon as it was out of the envelope, I’d earmarked it as something worth paying extra attention to.
Slipping the disc into my CD player, this feeling was confirmed again, and I cursed myself for letting it disappear under a pile of bank statements for so long. But, hey, my decision to finally clear that stuff up turned out to be perfectly timed, because her debut single, ‘Push It Away’ (the first track from that demo) is set for release through Label Fandango on 27 Sep. Newly spruced up by Mint Royale’s Neil Claxton, Barker’s acoustic pop is sounding better than ever, and happily retains the very pleasing intonation of “I am” on the chorus of the song.
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