Australian Grace Cummings doesn't pill her punches for a moment in recently released second album Storm Queen. It's full on,soaring, torch singer stuff, with a steely, classically rich voice reminiscent immediatelyo f Joan Baez, Marianne Faithfull and Judy Henske.
It's rather stentorian, old school and humourless for my personal taste, (many of these songs could easily have featured in Don't Look Now, or have been sung by the Folk crown in small Greenwich Village venues in previous years, there's not the remotest attempt to update the sensibility) but mightily impressive in its way. All feeling rather 1965 rather than 2022 in tone. But the songs are sturdy vehicles and Cummings certainly has the voice to do them justice.
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