Carrie Martin
Seductive Sky
Bucks Music Group Ltd
Returning
in earnest to music following the raising of her twins, Carrie Martin has
released her third LP, Seductive Sky, gently
encouraged by Gordon Giltrap, with whom she has shared occasional touring stages. She shapes her self-penned songs into a
cohesive and graceful groove. I liked the
originality and creativity of her output.
Her delivery of the songs is also precise in its enunciation, that helps
the listener appreciate the lyrics. It
reminds me in places, of the whimsy of Vashti Bunyan’s Just Another Diamond Day. Maria in the Moon is inspired by the
third novel of the same name from her friend Louise Beech, also from Hull,
which is an intelligent piece of marketing and on the strength of this track, a
full album collaboration could beckon and could emulate the success of mixed
media projects between poetry and painting.
The song perfectly displays Carrie’s unique singer-songwriter
credentials. Time, in memory of her
friend is a beautiful piece of music with the truth of its lyrics. No Return to Yesterday and The Woman in Me
and the excellent upbeat You Make Life Look Easy also impressed.
I
would have liked just a touch of her rock roots from her earlier career and
would offer that Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Caro Emerald, and Paloma Faith arguably
found success from more leftfield compositions alongside their more mainstream
styles, but music is often about our preferences and each artist needs the
freedom to explore their creativity in the moment which Carrie ably displays.
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