Album Review

My Glass World – Book One

• 28th Jun 2012

Clearly talented musicians, Jamie Telford and Dinah Beamish’s (My Glass World) album “Book One” opens with an air of polished craftsmanship and virtuosic ability. Most of the tracks rely on the combination of Telford’s piano and voice and Beamish’ sweeping cello lines and a combination of influences from classical and popular music worlds there is definite feel that these two musicians feed off each other’s creative input.

The title track is the first highlight, a melancholy affair, the lyrics conjuring images of life in a snow dome while the cello’s voice winds its way round the rest of the piece, like a comforting breeze. The album is made of factors I am often heavily preferential towards, dark moody songs, romantic strings and some really dirty piano chords (in a classical music sense, rather than a rock sense) and the album brings to mind some of David Sylvain’s (Japan) solo work, of which I am a big fan; however the album in general lacks, for me at least, a sense of any real emotional passion.

The songs, although lovely, peaceful and clearly born from talented minds, have no backbone to them and as a result create an album that is a collection of very similar songs that maybe you wouldn’t mind hearing if your car radio wouldn’t change station, whilst in a traffic jam, but offers very little to engage the listener, let alone arouse any emotions.

My Glass World need to start thinking outside their own pages and add something a little more individual and personal to their music.