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Review: 'LORNA'
'London's Leaving Me'   

-  Label: 'Words On Music'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '7th August 2015'-  Catalogue No: 'WM42'

Our Rating:
Lorna started life in Nottingham 1997 as a solo project of guitarist Mark Rolfe and has steadily grown since then so that the band's fifth album now includes Rolfe's wife Sharon Cohen-Rolfe plus four other multi-instrumentalists.

The sextet's melodic chamber folk songs are full of understated delicacy with the kind of meticulous arrangements you associate with American bands like Yo La Tengo and Low. In consequence, this is the kind of richly nuanced music more suited to small theatres or church halls than night clubs.

The opening two tracks, Like Alistair Sim and the single, Wayne Mills are respectively inspired by the Scottish actor of St Trinians fame and a neighbourhood friend. These set the tone (quiet) and pace (slow) of the album. (Incidentally, the latter features Bellowhead's Andy Mellon on trumpet).

All nine tracks are penned by the Rolfes with the exception of Smothered In Hugs, a stripped down cover of a 1994 song by Guided By Voices.

The problem with these wistful ballads and reveries is that they are so relentlessly nice that by the end you can't help yearning for an injection of energy and/or something darker or dirtier.



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  author: Martin Raybould

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LORNA - London's Leaving Me