- Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow/ANTI'
- Genre: 'Soul'
- Release Date: '29.11.24.'
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This is the 20th Anniversary re-issue of A Girl Called Eddy's debut album, this time released on Dusk Blue or Sunrise Yellow Vinyl or cd with bonus songs on Black Friday. The Eddy in question is Erin Moran who made the album with Richard Hawley producing and playing a vast array of instruments, with among others Shez Sheridan, Colin Elliot, Andy Cook, Ali Heath-Cook and originally mastered by Duncan Cowell and re-mastered by Paul McGeechan.
The album opens with the wistful Tears All Over Town, Eddy is heartbroken once more over the gentle strummed acoustic guitar with strings backing, evoking the sadness she feels, seeing your happiness with someone else.
Kathleen has a chamber music intro, to this introspective song of loss and separation, gentle strings caress the loss of Kathleen from the home they shared, before she disappeared, following the sound of the Chet Baker style trumpet who knows where.
Girls Can Really Tear You Up Inside is full of hushed betrayal, cushioned by gentle strings and guitar, almost sounding like the Harp Of Erin, Eddy wallows in her loneliness.
The Long Goodbye has left you free to move on, so happy you're out the door, the tears won't stop at all, plaintive statements of the obvious, the wasteland your relationship became.
Somebody Hurt You is a slow healing caress, trying to find a way to mend all the pain you hold within, the damage that's already been done. Can she share her loneliness with you, allowing you to heal together, this has an intimacy to make you hold on tight to each other.
People Used To Dream About The Future hoping for happiness and good times, this is a song that seems more relevant now than it would have done 20 years ago, the downbeat sorrow of reaching a point in your life when you have stopped dreaming about the future, the feelings of utter futility, couched in strings and feelings of pain and sorrow being gently caressed away.
Heartache is a barely there piano, super hushed backing for this heartbroken wistful song of yearning amongst the despair.
Life Through The Same Lens picks the tempo up, she's come through all the heartbreak and despair, finally hopeful for a brighter future, of course lyrically it is still despondent, how you carry on and get to feel good again.
Did You See The Moon Tonight is wistful remembrance of good times, when you could sit outside gazing at the moon together, back when you were an item, sad baleful song of sorrowful loss will have to do instead.
Little Bird can barely get off the ground so full of sadness and heartbreak is she. This is a late-night whisper full of subtle beauty.
The original album closed with Golden a plea for your everlasting love, a love that has been denied, how can she ever move on and find a way through all the heartache, slowly opening out to show a way towards a new Golden age, hopefully a new love, who loves her as obsessively as she loved the ex these songs are about.
The first of the bonus songs on the cd is Love Actually no idea if the song was in the film, this has a carefully strummed ukelele, for all her prostrations and imprecations of love, lovingly whispered into your ear, how can you resist.
Under The Warm Sun is gentle evocative song for falling deeply in love in a nice warm place.
The Soundtrack Of Your Life has a Tropicalia feel to the guitar, Eddy tries to ignore what's been going on behind her back, can she carry on like nothing's wrong?
Baby Plays Around is the same old story of a lover who likes to play the field, this is barely their acoustic strum for the hope to one day find a faithful partner, this is more heartfelt and thought provoking than Declan's original.
The Same Old Tears keeps to the tear-stained letters formula, of heartbreak and despair at every turn, one day her prince will arrive.
The album closes with Fading… Eddy sees her ex just fading away, the strings add to the feelings of sweet sorrow as a trumpet plays what could be the last post on the life they had together.
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