Alexis Dallman has relocated from Chicago to Minneapolis and is now seeking to make a name for herself from her base in Nashville.
With her glamour-girl looks she makes a visual impact which the music fails to match.
According to her press pack, her music "is embodied with a hellacious passion and undaunted perserverance; qualities which are indignant (sic) to her own personality".
If this is so, then the 5 bitter sweet love songs on her ep don't do her justice. Despite obvious efforts to sound sassy there's no real fire behind the songs and the arrangements are too bland to make a genuine impact.
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I'd guess that her aim is to replicate the streetwise style of Lucinda Williams but the songs are neither strong enough nor sufficiently heartfelt to reach such heights.
Lyrics like "I am a machine, you are the gasoline" certainly don't help her cause and the MOR pseudo rock backing doesn't give anything like the required punch to transform these songs above the level of routine country-rock ballads
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