First things first, Allo Darlin’ is an awful name for a band! Songwriter and vocalist Elizabeth Morris Innset says it came from the way she was regularly greeted by London market traders.
Innset is from Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia but is now based in the UK.
Making up the quartet are fellow Aussie Bill Botting and the British duo of Michael Collins and Paul Rains.
While the band initially split at the end of 2016, they announced reunion in January 2023. This is their fourth album, and the first since "We Come from the Same Place", was released in October 2014.
Although the first song muses on the symbolic significance of Leaves In The Spring the album as a whole aims to replicate an optimistic Summer mood.
Alternatively, Innset refers to it as “an album from the heart, dealing with themes of love, birth and death.”
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These are three minute bursts of breezy, jangly pop , commercial and accessible to the point that any one of the ten songs could be a single.
The first official single release is My Love Will Bring You Home which is about Innset’s devotion to her young daughters.
Melodic and delicate. the tunes are personal without being deeply confessional. The appeal lies in the warmth and easy going energy behind the music.
Allo Darlin’ website
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