When opening song "Three Heart Delay" washes in, it's like the aural equivalent of the expanding flavour of a good red wine, or some truffles maybe - accompanied by the same enveloping pleasure and sense of wellbeing. Like truffles - although, it must be admitted, even in this year of living cleanly, not always like red wine - the song's a scene-setter (stretching the metaphor, more a small entree than a mere amuse-bouche) rather than a main course; what follows is another ten songs of much loveliness, at times all drifty and dreamy, and at others more on the upbeat side. v.g.
(This being, of course, the follow-up to the much-loved-by-me Early Summer from a few years back.)
(This being, of course, the follow-up to the much-loved-by-me Early Summer from a few years back.)
