Natalie Merchant

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Natalie Merchant, A wandering poetic, seeping loneliness cries out from the shadows of opening track, ‘Nursey Rhyme of Innocence and Experience’. Signalling the start of a searching, brooding and well crafted 2 disc album that was six years in the making. A Country N’ Western flavour emboldens ‘Equestrienne ‘, also seeping into the playful, ‘Calico Pie’. Already, Merchant shows that her vocals are as comfortable with slow and meandering, as they are with skipping and carefree.

The 26 songs on offer are adapted from a variety of British and American poems with the odd lullaby and nursery rhyme slipped in. Jack Prelutsky’s ‘Bleezer’s Ice Cream’, is jazzed up to the nine as a piano and horn serenade each other almost as though they’re in competition. The decision to collaborate with some varied musicians pays fruition by magnifying Merchant’s mood flitting touches.

Natalie Merchant

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