Jesca Hoop + The Wintergreens + Run Lucky Free

Monday 15th February 2010

Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh

Over 18s only

Filtering vintage Tori Amos through the more sideways sensibility of Joanna Newsom, Jesca Hoops’s second album arrives fully formed on these shores (her previous British release was a limited EP).
Hoops’s touchstones may be at the more preternatural reaches of alt folk but she applies a grounding, off-kilter poppiness to these dusky, foresty-sounding songs, which range from classy psych folk on the title track to murder ballad Tulip with its smudged, filthy bass line, and the tightly sprung acoustic duet, Murder Of Birds, featuring an absurdly sweet, trickling guitar line and a barely audible Guy Garvey.
Hoops’s protean vocals shift from a whisper to a howl in the flick of an eyelid while a shocking sense of drama lurks deep within her deceptively pretty arrangements.



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