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Review: 'Johnston, Holly'
'The Doll’s House (EP)'   

-  Label: 'Backwater Records'
-  Genre: 'Folk' -  Release Date: '2nd September 2016'-  Catalogue No: 'SUF032'

Our Rating:
It must have been a difficult choice for Suffolk-born Holly: to record under her own name and risk being confused with the former front man of controversial multi-million selling act Frankie Goes to Hollywood, or adopt an alternative moniker. Having already achieved a degree of acclaim and a fan base with her debut album, it seems she made the right choice, and no-one’s confusing her contemporary folk-pop for the Hi-NRG 80s pop of the other Holly, and there are no Americanos being served here.

The three tracks here, which the first material since her second album, ‘East Anglian Girl,’ in January 2014 are pleasant and predominantly acoustic-based tunes which showcase her dainty, melodic vocal to good effect. It’s a shade twee, but there are far worse crimes, and the piano / cello arrangement on ‘Emily’ is more classical than folk in orientation and indicates the work of an artist eager to move beyond the parameters of standard genre trappings.

Holly Johnston Online

  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Johnston, Holly - The Doll’s House (EP)