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Album Reviews
Album Review: Lenka – Lenka (Sony/Columbia)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 1 June 2009
Despite this being her debut LP, Lenka is far from new to this business of show. Following in the teeny-tiny stiletto clad footprints of Kylie Minogue, she is another Australian small screen siren turned musician. Hardly a radical move, this is a path that has been well trodden over the years of course though most Aussie soap-to-pop stars spend at least some time on Ramsey Street, unlike Lenka who came to mainstream attention in Australia through the TV show ‘GP’. The success and credibility of Australian telly to music stars varies greatly of course, though I’d put this girl in the same camp as Natalie Imbruglia and Delta Goodrem who, surely, have succeeded in becoming known as serious musicians despite their soapy beginnings, or certainly artists who can genuinely add ‘songwriter’ to their CV. Lenka probably has even more credibility than those two, having earned some indie credentials by providing vocals and keys for fellow Aussies Decoder Ring, who soundtracked the critically acclaimed art house film, ‘Somersault’. Sound wise she’s a bit like a female Jack Johnson, but Australian, and with a piano. Her vocal stylings are consistently sweet but never saccharine, making her eponymous album feel like the perfect soundtrack to the type of day that’s filled with little else but sunshine. Even when the tales she’s telling are of unforeseen, wretched hands doled out by the great dealer in the sky, she hits back with humour and glorious melodies that radiate positivity. We’ve all been there; broke, dumped, ill, unemployed, depressed or all of these woeful things together. Lenka’s breezy sun-soaked simplicity and general good vibes could be the light at the end of your tunnel. MB
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