Album Review

A Fine Frenzy – Almost Lover

• 24th Jun 2008

Wow. 22 year old Alison Sudol, the name behind A Fine Frenzy and self-confessed fan of melancholic imports from the UK, has produced with Almost Lover at worst a complimentary comparison to James Blunt.

Her voice, pitched somewhere between Jewel and Nina Nastasia (with a pinch of Aimee Mann) and backed with a rather sedate Americana combo of piano/drum/guitar (my only criticism) sings a lyrical lament to luckless romance. Atmospheric but without the histrionics of Celine Dion or Mariah Carey, this singer/songwriter from the states will soon be too busy touring to worry about the feckless fool who walked away.