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Dawn Landes - Straight Lines
A mature and complex singer/songwriter with a penchant for bittersweet melancholy, Dawn Landes is making a viable play for the crown of Americana's new sweetheart. Beautifully showcasing her doleful vocals, 'Straight Lines' is an excellent introduction to the Kentucky-born songwriter's understated charms. Taken from a mini album ('Dawn's Music') that was made before her breakthrough long-player 'Fireproof' and released by the label that initially discovered her (Boy Scout Recordings), this delightful single helps nudge Landes beyond the reputations of Americana peers Sarabeth Tucek and Regina Spektor.
As a delicious and modest lullaby 'Straight Lines' is immeasurably charming. Pulling threads gently from the genres of folk and blues she weaves together a blithe slice of sun-scorched romantica that talks loosely around the subjects of love and youthful innocence. As light as a feather, it nonetheless remains grounded by some fine whispered harmonies and a melody so pure you could baptise babies with it.
'Straight Lines' is released on the 29th September through Boy Scout Recordings.
Josh Timber
www.dawnlandes.com
As a delicious and modest lullaby 'Straight Lines' is immeasurably charming. Pulling threads gently from the genres of folk and blues she weaves together a blithe slice of sun-scorched romantica that talks loosely around the subjects of love and youthful innocence. As light as a feather, it nonetheless remains grounded by some fine whispered harmonies and a melody so pure you could baptise babies with it.
'Straight Lines' is released on the 29th September through Boy Scout Recordings.
Josh Timber
www.dawnlandes.com
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