- Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
- Genre: 'Indie'
- Release Date: '9.5.25.'
Our Rating:
Clients Of Suddenness is the third album by Airdrieonian songwriter Louise Connell, who originally recorded as Reverieme. The album was recorded with help from Mark Brzezicki, Lewis Gordon and Grahame Skinner.
The album opens with Squall a deep dive into a difficult life, the heroine struggles living through a bi-polar hurricane, that switched from slow quiet reflection, building and layering the pain and difficulty of making it through, the piano rises and falls and Louise reminds me a bit of Natalie Merchant.
The Machine has some rather mechanistic keyboards, for Louise to pour out all the problems, of a boyfriend who behaves like he's a machine, rather unfeeling, she lists all the things your guilty of, while committing the crime of breaking her heart.
My Agincourt is sombre strings and piano with military snare salvos, for the fight to keep the kids and stop her family being torn apart, a battle royale she's unsure as to how to win the battle, a seemingly impossible fight.
All The Smartest People want to hear this record and spend time enjoying the laid-back feelings this song evokes, sophisticated feelings imprinted on your consciousness taking away all the indecision.
Awakenings is the tune to put on your alarm clock to try to wake you first thing, while Louise is worried about how her insomnia is affecting her, will she wake up properly and be able to do what needs to be done on this day.
Build A Home is more ambient sounds for the construction of a happy home to live in with her love, this features Graham Skinner on counterpoint vocals.
Indentation Of Life is a slow rumination on the scars that we all have from living a full life, wallow in the pain and distress Louise has felt.
Pieces Of Me is less harrowing than finding pieces of Jennifer's body, but is full of sanguine advice, for someone who did what they were told and then found out that was the worst thing they could do, how do you recover from the trauma. The voices whispering in her ear against the abstruse percussion may or may not help.
Diseases Of Control those little levers that slowly chip away at your self-worth, before you know it you can't do a thing with out your partners position, No matter what's happened Louise is clinging to life and loving you.
The album closes with the albums first single that came out in 2022 The Truth That I Suppose I Always Knew slowly revealing exactly what the truth she is singing about really is, this is nicely sophisticated catchy song, underpinned by the synths and the guitars that I can now sing along with I have played it at work enough.
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