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Album Reviews
Album Review: Strike The Colours – Seven Roads (Deadlight Records)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Saturday 19 September 2009
What a pretty girl Strike The Colours’ Jenny is. What a pretty voice she has. And what a pretty, simple little album ‘Seven Roads’ is. A girl from Scotland myself, away from home to live the big life in the nation’s capital, listening to the album was something of a nostalgic experience, and it did make me feel the slightest pangs of homesickness. Shaded with winter, ‘Seven Roads’ is a cold, delicate record, and, thankfully, steers away from the kind of work that members of the band have indulged in on the side (Snow Patrol anyone? I didn’t think so). So, first thing to mention, ‘Seven Roads’ isn’t exactly a cheery affair. However, as mentioned previously, it’s pretty – it’s light, it’s sad without slugging itself down; ‘Cat’ and ‘Rivers’ are the highlights, the former perhaps is best, with its rhythmic guitar-plucking and a rich kind of movement throughout, precisely in the centre of this short, ten-track record. Like their veteran Scottish-pop peers Belle & Sebastian and Camera Obscura, Strike The Colours don’t shy away from twee instrumentation and breathy, lightly-accented vocals, and with these familiar sounds backed up by folksy strings and morose acoustics, it makes for a fresh, inventive debut. TW
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