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Review: 'DELTA BELL, THE'
'Bow Out Of The Fading Light'   

-  Label: 'At The Helm Records'
-  Genre: 'Folk' -  Release Date: '31st July 2015'

Our Rating:
On this debut album by Brighton-based singer-songwriter Kate Gerrard the ocean is a strong and occasionally menacing presence.

You can easily imagine the opening song Carry Us Home and Of Mist being written while contemplating the rolling waves, heavy skies and imminent storms. While the former sees some semblance of hope in the light and the tide, the latter is of a more brooding, pessimistic character

Gerrard is no happy go lucky type and makes no secret of her love of the heartbreak songs of Country music. This influence is most obvious in the steel guitar driven I've Seen The Way.

The nods to Americana are less apparent on the other songs, however, which fall more in the territory of low key bluesy-folk. There's even a hint of 60s pop melodrama in Forever Yours ("I don't want anyone if I can't have you") and Every Tonight.

Then, there's the single, Wasted, with the kind of spikey goodbye and good riddance sentiments that would not be out of place in a Lily Allen song ("Don't care where you're going, as long as it's far").

It's a shame that this sassy, defiant tone is not more prevalent elsewhere since this would have lifted the bleak and melancholy mood of an album which is more suited to lonely walks along the promenade in dreary weather rather than as a soundtrack to summery beach parties.

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  author: Martin Raybould

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DELTA BELL, THE - Bow Out Of The Fading Light