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Review: 'HUNGER, SOPHIE'
'The Danger Of Light'   

-  Label: 'Two Gentlemen'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '28th January 2013'

Our Rating:
The third solo release from this Swiss singer is, like her previous releases, a mixed bag that defies classification.

Hunger's father was a diplomat and constant travelling as a child left her with a cosmopolitan perspective and an eclectic taste in music.

This is reflected in an album which contains elements of art pop, jazz, swing, soul and indie-rock - an exercise in musical bunny hopping that is both the record's strength and weakness.

While it shows an artist who doesn't want to be confined to any particular style, the effect can be also be disorientating as she switches between being feisty and fragile.

So for example, Like Like Like has touches of Regina Spektor; Can You See Me? and Souldier touch on the emotional territory of a female Jeff Buckley while the jazzy piano on Das Neue has a fiery experimental edge to it.

On a German chat show, when asked to explain some obscure lyrics to the latter track, she replied "words are a vehicle for transportation".

There's no doubting Hunger's talent but in her enthusiasm to display her strident individualism she works in a fairly undisciplined way. Channelling her skills in less showy manner would give the tracks greater resonance.



Sophie Hunger's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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HUNGER, SOPHIE - The Danger Of Light
HUNGER, SOPHIE - The Danger Of Light