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Classically trained Bristolian pianist-singer Rossanne Hamilton here offers a beautifully packaged (black lace-bound booklet, original illustrations from a variety of profit-sharing artists…) showcase of her talents. It’s ambitious and higher-educated fare full of words like “reticence” and “innocuous”, Hamilton’s light and acrobatic voice given to many an expressive twist and turn. The remorseless girliness of everything (“It’s a big, big world when you’re on your own” – ‘Delicate Wires’) is mercifully zhuzhed up by bursts of Regina Spektor-ish eccentricity, while the live half of this double EP package suggests a live setting affects Hamilton like a shot of the purest endorphins – she is sweeter, sharper, more finely modulated, more alive, and must snatch the audience’s breath clean away. A charmer. (Anna Britten)
Copyright Anna Britten 2011
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