Album Review

Eliza Doolittle – Eliza Doolittle EP

• 23rd Nov 2009

Lobbing folk-pop, spliced with low-key life musing trickles out of ‘Rollerblades’, demonstrating a common and catchy touch to start off a potentially ear catching four track EP.

This opener especially, provides the impact of Kate Nash and Remi Nicole after a combined session of yoga and anger management. Scattered percussion and subtle guitar weaving, provides a sound backdrop for Eliza Doolittle to playfully protest against double standards.

The lyrical touch takes on a more mundane and retro inclined, minimalistic slant in ‘Money’. Rubbing off against a fairground veined backing jangle;

“Picking these downloads everyday has its price, we can lounge on my couch and listen to our 45s. So take your dollar, your yen, those euro’s I can’t spend; I can’t get down with no pounds.”

The more you listen to this EP, the more you wish that Mike Leigh, director of the semi-cult English Indie-film ‘Happy-Go Lucky’, could not rebuild the film around the quaint, quirky and free spirited music of dark horse song crafter, Eliza Doolittle. This especially applies to the tingling key driven pop-folk jaunt of ‘Go Home’.

Doolittle certainly has that infectious low-key energy and desire to do things with a skip and a spirited touch.

She is probably unaware that she is well on the way to mastering that easy looking, but often oh so difficult task of merging folk and pop with sharp urban edged commentary.