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Review: 'RHODES, LOU'
'The Yesandeye'   

-  Label: 'Nude Records'
-  Genre: 'Folk' -  Release Date: '22nd July 2016'

Our Rating:
Most personal growth groups revolve around making positive affirmations designed to overcome negativity. Affirmers place trust in the power of the universe to provide feelings of loving awareness, harmony and contentment.

Directing words and emotions and giving thanks to some celestial benefactor also seems to be the essence of this album. The songs have the implicit message that we are all need to take responsibility for our own happiness by means of focusing on themes of birth and renewal.

There are references to mother earth, angelic beings and ,in Sea Organ, a personal address to "brothers and sisters of the sun". Life is equated to a Magic Ride with "Every day a new beginning".

Rhodes' breathy voice gives these ideas an intimacy and they are realised with the help of analogue instrumentation lavishly described as including "transcendent harp and strings all wrapped up within a heady smattering of vintage reverbs".

Rhodes recorded six albums with the Mancunian downtempo, drum'n'bass duo Lamb but for her fourth solo project she wanted to pursue a different direction which is more folky than ambient in tone. She adds that "I had a gut feeling I wanted to experiment with a slightly psychedelic feel". Producer Simon Byrt is employed to make this a reality in a Wiltshire studio.

The effect is a little cloying at times although the lush arrangements do succeed in giving the album an other worldly grace which I think was the chief objective.

Lou Rhodes' website
  author: Martin Raybould

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RHODES, LOU - The Yesandeye