ALBUM REVIEW :: NANCY ELIZABETH - BATTLE AND VICTORY

Current mood: olde....
Category: olde.... Music

Sweet male and female singer songwriters are obviously in vogue.

More to the point, have they ever left vogue??

Not that I can remember...

No boss, despite the various and diverse musical trend splashes of the last 50 years, the charts have always been awash with the simple and often plaintive acoustic musings of love and loss, the like of which Nancy Elizabeth provides on this 'ere album Battle & Victory.

B & V isn't however a recording that's likely to threaten the dominance of teenage commerce acoustic pop like Kate Nash or the middle-aged mans fantasy wank pop of Katie Melua. No, Ms Elizabeth is going for a rather more clever, ancient and less commercial sound than the cheruby smilers that leap out of every HMV like thrushy cheap vultures.

So what exactly does Nancy Elizabeth offer then???

Well, when listening to this record, I think of maidens with plaitts. I think of the ancient drink of Mead and the town of Galstonbury on market day in the year 952AD. I think of feudalism, heavily woven cloth, heavy mists and open fires a roasting...

Yes boss, Battle and Victory is a delicate and well worked timepiece. It's musically decent and warm enough, but to be honest Battle & Victory hasn't quite grabbed my goat and slaughtered it over a open fire until it's eyes pop...

Why not??

Well, firstly I'm not huge on the whole genre of acoustic and/or folk, though sometimes it buys me out when played LIVE.

Secondly, I find the vocal here to be rather thin, lacking in emotive power and too similar to Dido's.

And thirdly...no, I don't believe there be no thirdly - just the two....

So there we go. if you like that kind of period time ancient sounds thing you'll like this - if you don't you most likely won't...

Currently listening : Battle and Victory By Nancy Elizabeth Release date: By 02 October, 2007

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	Purveyor of Nothing	Dont start me on Katie fucking Melua.Do u remember when she sang Kirsty Macolls part on Fairytale of new york.It was like Tona de Brett on that sex pistols documentary.Shouldn't be done.ever.No boss. Posted by Purveyor of Nothing on Monday, November 05, 2007 at 01:05 [Remove] [Reply to this]

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Never saw it... I downloaded her first album and found it to be wierdly bad. I mean with most things that chart you can at least see the hook/selling point, but with her I've never been able to see it... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Monday, November 05, 2007 at 09:53 [Remove] [Reply to this]