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“I’ve lived every word I write..” -‘Roses‘
This is a reflective piece of work. Irish rockabilly songstress, turned soulful realist Imelda May has released an Ep which is planted in humanity, and set to an uplifting, dramatic soundscape. Slip Of The Tongue delves deeper into the prowess of the singer-songwriter, and displays a technique which like the singer herself has evolved. It has been a productive seventeen years since No Turning Back, and although the quiff may have gone, Imelda’s skill for projecting and executing every syllable has not.
This however is not a singalong, danceable piece of work. Slip Of The Tongue takes another direction, and a refreshing one at that. Earlier this year in June, at the height of the 2020 BLM movement, Imelda released a poem “You Don’t Get To Be Racist And Irish”. Although this made the lady a target for the uneducated dregs of society, those of us who open a book will know the importance of those words. It showed a fearlessness in her conviction, and Slip Of The Tongue is an extension of those fearless advances. It perhaps no surprise from a country that produced Yeats, Beckett and Joyce that poetry, and the power of words themselves, regardless of what setting they are used is still an important factor in Irish music, Fontaines D.C are a testament to that.
Tracklist:
1.Home
2.GBH
3.Elephant
4.Becoming
5.Liberty Belle
6.Roses
7.The Word Is Out
8.Stay
9.Stargazer
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