http://www.muruch.com/2009/01/lisa-hannigan-sea-sew.html Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:16:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.muruch.com/2009/01/lisa-hannigan-sea-sew.html/comment-page-1#comment-1233 Jenn Grant: Echoes « Muruch Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:45:45 +0000 http://www.muruch.com/?p=912#comment-1233 [...] The opener “Heartbreaker” is a little too flatly morose for Grant’s vocals, but it’s one of the few complaints I can make about this album. The more buoyant melody of “You’ll Go Far” follows, providing the perfect setting for her delicate voice. The lovely “Where Are You Now” colours a fragile folk strum with what sounds to my untrained ears like the deep creak of an oboe. “Blue Mountains” is certainly a solid tune and will probably appeal more to others, but I feel it lacks the emotional potency found elsewhere on the album. It’s airy style reminds me a bit of Lisa Hannigan’s debut. [...] [...] The opener “Heartbreaker” is a little too flatly morose for Grant’s vocals, but it’s one of the few complaints I can make about this album. The more buoyant melody of “You’ll Go Far” follows, providing the perfect setting for her delicate voice. The lovely “Where Are You Now” colours a fragile folk strum with what sounds to my untrained ears like the deep creak of an oboe. “Blue Mountains” is certainly a solid tune and will probably appeal more to others, but I feel it lacks the emotional potency found elsewhere on the album. It’s airy style reminds me a bit of Lisa Hannigan’s debut. [...]

]]> http://www.muruch.com/2009/01/lisa-hannigan-sea-sew.html/comment-page-1#comment-895 Sarah Jaffe: Even Born Again « Muruch Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:50:50 +0000 http://www.muruch.com/?p=912#comment-895 [...] brims with the kind of gorgeous heartbreak I longed to hear from Lisa Hannigan, yet “Under” simmers guttural guitar beneath Sarah’s purrs and [...] [...] brims with the kind of gorgeous heartbreak I longed to hear from Lisa Hannigan, yet “Under” simmers guttural guitar beneath Sarah’s purrs and [...]

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