Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Song(s) of the Day # 2,011 Grace Lightman


 'One part Abba, two parts Twin Peaks' not a bad description of a record. In this case it's the artist's own, Grace Lightman's description of her sound and her debut album, Silver Eater. It's a slick, smooth beast indeed, redolent at various points of Goldfrapp, Kylie, Ladyton and Madge herself, but always maintaining a fierce electro-dance identity of its own.



A couple of killer tracks short of classic status it's still a very good record, which should shift some units given the right marketing push. Lightman has a smooth voice which simply floats across the surface of one slickly constructed track after another. 
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Reminiscent at some points of that strange moment in the late Seventies when space adventure became a sub genre of disco. Silver Eater is  cool, mainstream multiplex entertainment.


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