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Review: 'LANE, JORDIE'
'Not Built To Last EP'   

-  Label: 'Blood Thinner Records'
-  Genre: 'Folk' -  Release Date: '5th August 2013'

Our Rating:
Since 2006 Jordie lane has released three studio albums and a live record so you have to take the title of this EP with a pinch of salt.

The Melbourne-born singer songwriter spent his early years in his parents' travelling theatre troupe and having taken to the stage himself to win praise in his native Australia, these new tunes appear to be pitched at a wider audience in the USA and Europe.

The tracks were recorded in Nashville with Skylar Wilson who gave them what Lane calls a "70s country band" sound.

Recent promotional gigs (in January 2014) have included a tour of UK for the first time.

Old school folk is still Lane's stock in trade but there are hints too of a broader palette. The opening track,Here She Comes, is the most interesting in that it has a psychedelic jangle that seems in part to be turning into an acoustic version of Massive Attack's Teardrop.

On Maybe Somebody, Lane's resonant voice sounds a little like The Verve's Richard Ashcroft.

Alongside these, Lost In You is the most Dylan-esque of the five songs and an indication of where his true roots still lie.

Jordie Lane's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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LANE, JORDIE - Not Built To Last EP