Album Review

Thea Gilmore – You’re The Radio

• 23rd Jul 2010

Oxfordshire-born, erstwhile songstress Thea Gilmore continues to grow in searching poetic nature and, having exorcised the demon of depression, her songs now encapsulate worldly wise viewpoints. These are supported by winding, trotting percussion led instrumentals.

‘You’re The Radio’ is the lead single from her tenth album ‘Murphy’s Heart’. Her clear and rising, yet darkly veiled vocal clarity of Sheryl Crow ilk, grips hold of ‘You’re The Radio’, as the old “opposites attract” phenomenon is put under her charming, life magnifying microscope.

A winding, slightly bluesy acoustic guitar nudged intro is given a forlorn edge by the stirring low-key vocal touch that builds and builds, as her confidence grows. More body and a stern echo means that her points are well made. Gilmore’s reputation for merging the cathartic with the upbeat will continue to flourish and the twenty album mark could be reached sooner than you think.

Rating: 3.5/5