This is Hannah Cohen's break up album and as such opens with her breathily demanding "he tells me her name". On Keepsake she sounds swoonsome while pleading and asking him to tell her he still loves her, almost begging over what has to be the least angry sounding music going: all nice pastoral flourishes and mild organic techno. Er, shouldn't she be really angry?
Lilac is all far away kind of there vocals and music like she's been wrapped in a cocoon and doesn't want to leave. She's all snuggled up in a corner, totally at odds with the pretty prom queen and iced cakes cover of the album and this is all breathy and almost winsome.
Watching You Fall starts as a piano led ballad as she intones the song's title and then starts listing how she wants him to fall over. It's a very slow, almost funereal single drum beat with violins in the backwash and it's oh so gentle as we go when the lyrics sound like they should be angry as all hell raging. The backing is totally at odds with the lyrics as she almost sounds like she is almost getting orgasmic at one point rather than tearful or angry.
I'll Fake It is probably an example of the desperate attitude that made him want to seek his fun and games elsewhere as he wanted someone who doesn't fake it. This song is so carefully sung it's almost painful and the attempt at having almost dentist drill noises in the background should have been upfront drowning out almost everything else. Instead, it ends up as a mild distraction rather than the full on irritant I think it was meant to be.
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Clairemont sounds similar to Evi Vine, except she does it far better. It's so slight as to be barely there at all: ambient background with some vaguely odd sounds. Queen Of Ice has some great bits with a brass section that makes it stand out a bit but is pretty much as quiet as the rest of the album. All her pleading and still he ignores her. Well if you are as good looking as the picture on the album cover I'd suggest finding a man or woman who appreciates you more and forgetting the loser that left.
Just Take The Rest is yet more pleading with the long gone lover as she wants him to take the rest of her mind and body over more winsome barely-there ambient sounds. The album closes with so barely there it's almost gone wistful piano led pleading as she tells us she wanted to love him. By this point in the album I just want to scream at her "get over him and do it now!!"
If you want a depressing listen from a woman in need of a new man to obsess over this is the album for you. The gentle ambient techno really does little to float my boat, it's just too inoffensive and far too wallpaper-ish for me.
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