Along with a host of other recent British female singer/songwriters (you know who they are) KATE AUMONIER dispenses with the troubled guitar-strung troubadour mantle in favour of sunnier climes via the acoustic pop route mapped out on ‘Much Like Yesterday’. Taken from her fêted debut album ‘Here I Am’ AUMONIER’s currency is steadily climbing, her voice having already pricked the ears of Dr. John, Emmylou Harris and producer Ethan Johns; so the stamp of approval is hard to ignore.
‘Much Like Yesterday’ does just enough to register, employing some canny chord changes that sit prettily behind her voice. Musically the song sounds like one of Fran Healy’s better efforts and the lyrics cleverly convey the pain behind the smile when telling everyone that you’re OK. ‘By This Time’ is almost gossamer thin but still strong enough in melody to weave its way into your consciousness.
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I like this because although it’s MORish there is genuine pleasure to be had in immersing yourself in its subtle washes. AUMONIER has ‘something’ as well although at the moment that ‘something’ is elusive and fragmentary. Her voice is deceptive, at first sounding sweet and then slowly revealing an edge with further plays.
At this stage she is perhaps best described as one to watch who has yet to come into her own.
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