Y'know, I've always considered the 'compliment' that someone has 'a good pair of lungs' more of a criticism. At least, when members of the public say someone has 'a good pair of lungs,' it's more often than not the case that the singer in question belts out the songs and blows people away with the sheer power of their vocal thus creating a distraction from the fact they're not all that good a singer and have no sense of subtlety whatsoever.
Ms Kennedy and Ms Green certainly each possess a good pair of lungs, and give the thirteen songs on this, their eponymous collaborative debut, one hundred percent in the fist-clenching, power-singing stakes. This goes for the gentle, folk-laced acoustic numbers, the power-ballads, the mid-paced indie-pop numbers.... You'd have thought the producer and the dudes at the mixing desk might have inched the vocals down a bit in the mix to compensate, but now. We're given a mix that's 66% vocal, 33% everything else. The result? Not so good.
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It doesn't help that the material's so very bland and average (not the girls' fault: the album was penned by James Martin - the teacher and songwriter, not the TV chef- and David Cutts. There are no standout tracks: it's a set of uniformly dull pub-gig fodder. Charity release or nay (and you can call me churlish and uncharitable for this is you like), the fact remains that it's painful rather painful and deeply bland.
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