Thursday, 26 November 2020

Lucy Kane - It's Not Christmas Without You


29 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!!

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The music of Lucy Kane has been a glittering bright spot in a gloomy 2020. She's navigated her audience through the year with elegant emotion and graceful melodies, interpreting the songs of others with exquisite charm. It is what stands her in excellent stead to release her inaugural Christmas EP - It's Not Christmas Without You; a collection of 3 delectable songs that are as ornate and intricate as the most beautiful bauble on your Christmas tree. One of the wonders of Lucy is how she is able to command a song with just the intonation of her voice; she ensures each note says so much more than the words whilst working in symbiotic partnership with the instruments that caress her vocals. With the heightened emotions of Christmas, she's perfectly place to eloquently convey what merely simmers within the rest of us...
  • It's Not Christmas Without You ~ the EP's title track is a heart felt, aching ballad all about the loneliness anyone can feel at what always seems the most crowded time of the year. The song starts as a melancholy piano-vocal ballad with Lucy infusing each word with an intimate insight that feels like a peek into the most personal of diary entries. The crescendo in the middle 8 perfectly mirrors that inner turmoil anyone feels when feelings get too much to keep in. It is wonderfully done, a lilting elegiac love letter that transcends musical trends and fading fads.
  • I'll Be Home For Christmas ~ the sorrow of the previous song is balanced out with the indominable sense of hope that even hard times can't crush. Lucy has a yearning sense of wishing, almost as if she is lost in a vision she can see but can't quite reach just yet. The piano becomes more powerful, buoying Lucy's passionate singing - and the duet sees voice and instrument draw strength from the other. That final "if only in my dreams" is both fragile and determined; a true juxtaposition of sentiment we can all relate to.
  • Sweater ~ lost in a reverie of memories, this warming slice of pop nostalgia sees Lucy as the most gifted storyteller; a mellifluous Jackanory if you will. With finger click grooves, delicious layered harmonies and a brilliant refrain of "I'll wear your Christmas sweater", this is as cosy and inviting as the titular clothing she sings of. Some really effective melisma adds to the mesmerising scrap book of melodies Lucy sings so vividly. In her own reflections and sadness across the EP, the listener finds glittering magic in the heavenly music. 
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