Krystle Warren – Circles

• 6th Nov 2009

Krystle Warren hails from the folk / acoustic genre and melds those fields with a smoky jazz room effect.

It’s a really laid back some what horizontal listen. You’ll either whack it on whilst having a dinner party as is noodles away and is unthreatening or you fancy a lazy day on the sofa put the earphones and let it sooth your cranium into submission.

Its not gonna batter you with its wittyness or bamboozle you with the music as its simply too easy listening to be that capturing. The pace throughout barely lifts upon pedestrian and at times the Norah Jones style vocal (sic!) makes it quite an average album to listen to.

Her backing band must be half asleep whilst playing (‘some trivial pursuit’). ‘Year End Issue’ is reminiscent of Tracy Chapman at times but whilst Chapman had vigour, guile and purpose in her vocal style Krystle just dawdles too much to really convince you that her musical output is going to sell by the truck load.

File under: coffee table, dinner parties etc and you get the general gist here.