Gemma Hayes - Night On My Side

On my first couple of listens through this album, I was distracted by Hayes' odd, subdued ululations, but they soon receded into the background; what I couldn't shake, however, on repeated spins, was the feeling that these songs just aren't very good. There are hints of something better - "Hanging Around", "Let A Good Thing Go", "Ran For Miles", "Lucky One (Bird of Cassandra)" - but even those ones only half work for me, and most of the album blurs into a gently indistinct wallpaper.