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Siobhan Donaghy 'Ghosts' Album
Review
Albums can be lots of things –
catchy, witty, original, passionate, well-sung,
well-written... What many of them aren’t, however, are things
of beauty. Siobhan Donaghy’s second album, Ghosts, is such a
thing of beauty that it deserves to be hung up in an art
gallery.
Donaghy’s beautiful voice floats along a series of swooning,
swirling songs with more grace than Darcey Bussell pirouetting
her way to cloud nine. She may have once been in the Sugababes
yet now Donaghy sounds like a slightly more mainstream Kate
Bush, which is no bad thing. Woefully-overlooked
hauntingly-gorgeous first single Don’t Give It Up cheekily
almost nicks one of Bush’s song titles but is thoroughly
deserving of the association. Other Bush-esque highlights
include the stunning Medevac, the trippy loveliness of
So You
Say and the weirdly intoxicating backwards singing of the epic
Ghosts.
Amongst this heady blend of floaty splendour and random
noises, the jaunty lollop of 12 Bar Acid Blues sticks out like
a sore thumb and is the only of the heavenly eleven I can ever
see grating. The truth is that every one of these
sophisticated tracks is pretty perfect and I would rattle on
more except I’m running out of synonyms for beautiful...
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Rachel Read
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