STYLE: Pop RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 4460-2229 LABEL: Independent FORMAT: CD Album ITEMS: 1
Reviewed by Alan Smith
Five piece female vocal, some of which is a bit dodgy. The production by Alan Weight (who also plays keys and bass) is laclustre and very ordinary, sometimes laboured, although Tommy Stankovic lifts some of it out of the mire with some very nutty rock guitar. Strangely, the a cappella tracks work best, the voices enjoying a kind of synergy in their sparseness. The lyrics don't redeem it much, coming across, as they do, rather like early '60s protest songs but with a hint of God's remedy, rather than placing the emphasis the other way round.
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different version, sung by Sue Rivers Mack (formerly Sue
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sites. Cross Rhythms should pick up on last year's releases
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story almost full circle, mixing Lennon and McCartney
material with brilliant new River songs. To buy River's
stuff involves email, postage stamps and cheques! Definitely
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