Sea Sew | Loppylugs

Submitted by the panel on 16 February 2013 - 10:27pm

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Artist:

Lisa Hannigan

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a_69

Nationality:

Ireland

Year:

2 008

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Track-listing:

Ocean And A Rock*Venn Diagram*Sea Song*Splishy Splashy*I Don't Know*Keep It All*Courting Blues*Pistachio*Teeth*Lille

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_26

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Spotify-URL:

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Grooveshark-URL:

Sea+Sew/2282730

Short-title:

seaSew

nominator-ID:

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Meeting-date:

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

MusicBrainz-URL:

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Wikipedia-URL:

Sea_Sew

Spotify-link-type:

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Metacritic-URL:

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Discogs-URL:

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Allmusic-URL:

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BBC-URL:

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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

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8-9

This is a 'nice' album, in all senses of the word: pleasant, well executed, simple, insubstantial, unchallenching. It's easy to let these songs pass you by without them making much of an impact, there's nothing groundbreaking here or anything terribly exciting but overall this is well crafted stuff and albums of this quality are fairly rare in this sort of mainstream folk, light-pop vein. There's a fair amount of variety in the arrangements and tempos without it ever threatening to unsettle the listener. And the sound, and particularly the singer, are very reminiscent of things you may have heard a thousand times before – maybe there's a bit of Norah Jones, Eddie Brickell or Beth Orton about it or maybe a dozen other people you may be vaguely reminded of. There are some nice cello lines but otherwise nothing that really distinguishes the sound and makes it her own.

The lyrics, too, felt nicely crafted, again with the sharp edges smoothed off, but clever enough in their own light way. Overall I appreciated the skill and the considered touch in making this pleasant album, even if it did leave me a little uninspired.
60

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

Too splishy splashy wishy washy for me

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4

Her voice sounds as good as it looks - lush, subtley powerful, sometimes invigourating. But this is the kind of music my auntie would listen to, and I don't really want to dedicate too much of my future listening to something so middle of the road and unchallenging.

There's one good song here, the opening track, which is a cracker; the rest are insignificant and not really worth the bother.
59

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Rom Com soundtrack here we come

Nothing wrong with this, but a bit too girly and safe for my liking. Some of the lyrical conceits are quite clever, and the instrumentation is quite pleasing, but that's it. This is not an album I would listen to out of choice. Fair play to the Mercury Prize for nominating unknown stuff. Makes a change from the dross on the Brits for sure.
50

reviewed by

Richard Norbury

Didn't really do it for me. Very average.