Esther Rose is not an artist that I've been aware of previously but she's someone I'm pleased to have got to know over the last couple of days listening to her fine new Pop / Country album Safe to Run.
There's an immediate warmth and easy humour and skill here that make you want to come back to the record and get to know it better, like a beautiful woman you get chatting to in a bar late one night. On second track and single Chet Baker she comes on like a C&W Courtney Barnett, and frankly there's nothing that's likely to endear me to an artist more.
Safe to Run runs smoothly down these rails for the course of its fifty minutes. Rose doesn't want to change the world. Who of us does, if we're honest. It sounds like a hard, thankless task. Really we just want to have a good time while we're here.
Esther's someone who clearly know how to do this. But she has her moments when she plumbs profound depths too. A beautiful way with words and melodies that near break your heart on occasion. A rather lovely, wonderfully crafted and utterly unpretentious record all round.
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