Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Sarah Blasko - As Day Follows Night

One that I've had to listen to quite a few times for it to really make itself known, but worth the perseverance. A collection of sprightly, spacious, vividly coloured singer-songwriter pop which hits its straps at the start, falters with a couple of dreary numbers in its midsection and then runs home strongly, it deliberately eschews the spectral atmospherics that characterised The Overture & The Underscore and What The Sea Wants... in favour of a lighter, more delicate (if equally introspective) palette which, married with a bunch of pretty good songs, I find rather charming, if not quite as memorable as her two earlier lps.