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Snowpoet: Thought You Knew
ByOn "The Therapist" Kinsella gently weaves her voice around Nick Costley-White's chiming acoustic guitar and her own exquisite backing vocals. "Dear Someone," sounding like an old fashioned traditional song, is a short and charming acapella number with Kinsella supplying her own multi-tracked harmonies. "Love Again," the longest track at seven minutes, encapsulates all that is good about this album, a perfect balance of instruments juxtaposed with angelic vocals. The quirky "It's Already Better Than Ok," mainly spoken by Kinsella in her dulcet Irish lilt, essentially amounts to an irresistible stream of consciousness poem.
Thought You Knew offers a delicately haunting collection of songs that seamlessly straddle the boundaries of folk, jazz and popular music and are all infused with, as the name suggests, a subtle poetic delivery. At just under thirty five minutes this is a comparatively short album by today's standards, but with Snowpoet it's very much a case of quality over quantity and consequently leaves the listener thirsting for more.
Track Listing
The Therapist; Under The Tree; Water Baby; Love Again; Dear Someone; Snow; Pixel; Two Of Cups; It’s Already Better Than Ok; Another Step.
Personnel
Lauren Kinsella: vocals, backing vocals; Chris Hyson: electric bass, double bass, piano, synths; Nick Costley-White: acoustic guitar; Matthew Robinson: piano; Dave Hamblett: drums; Josh Arcoleo: saxophone. Additional musicians: Alice Zawadski: violin; Francesca Ter-Berg: cello; Lloyd Haines: drums, percussion (1,2 & 7).
Album information
Title: Thought You Knew | Year Released: 2018 | Record Label: Edition Records