![]() ![]() It's somewhat fortunate, then, that Travelling Like The Light boasts a rare kind of head-turning indie-pop magnificence more than capable of both remunerating anxious fans and silencing – if not fully converting – detractors. Already the subject of relentless tutting and tweeting from hordes of backseat A&R men, and having already been crafted her own pedestal as a style deity by the fashion press before most of them have even heard her sing a note, means there's a sizeable, cynical gaze to contend with. Quote from: BBC The debut album from VV Brown comes with the kind of albatross-round-the-neck pressure normally attached to a high-expectation sophomore effort. It's a good thing this one's so endlessly replayable, so worth poring over every tic, stutter, and syllable. Glasgow's Life Without Buildings backed up her gorgeous high-wire act with perfectly understated guitar work, and made just this one incredible, gem-like album- lovable, beautiful, and moving, the kind of treasure with a mood and aesthetic entirely its own. ![]() Her voice bounces and twirls acrobatically all around the music, then pulls itself up into passionate demands like lines ripped from an argument: "Look back and say that I didn't!" She does all this and yet sounds really normal and down-to-earth and awesome about it. She makes girlish exclamations and then whips around to chest-beating boasts, defiant dares, wounded questions. She rolls and stretches words around in her mouth. She rattles out streams of words, repeating phrases and fragments like someone compulsively murmuring a list she's trying not to forget. ![]() Quote Sue Tompkins might be the most striking indie singer of the decade. ![]()
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