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Damascus / Sophia / Idaho /
Geek Love / Nickindia / Mr King / Everybody's
Gone To War / Learning To Breathe / Heart Attack / All Good
People
14TH FLOOR RECORDINGS
Produced by Howard Willing, Wendy Melvoin, Eric Rosse and
Jon Brion
RELEASED>April 17th 2006
Wallowing in a hazy Sunday
morning charm, FIRES is an album that exudes
class and style - Nerina Pallot fast emerging as a talent
you'll immediately warm to. As both a talented singer and
songwriter, Nerina Pallot writes and sings the kind of songs
to melt your heart - her voice a gorgeous thing of beauty,
possessing the kind of range that can flit between intense
whisper, soaring falsetto and sugar sweet pop.
In FIRES, Pallot delivers a record of rare
beauty and whispered majesty - an album to place alongside
Cat Power's The Greatest and Gemma Hayes The Roads Don't Love
You as examples of sublime female singer/songwriters this
year.
Not quite the intense experience that anyone witnessing Nerina
Pallot live may have come to expect, FIRES
instead is a record that works in elements of sugar coated
pop, warm soul and 70s style singer/songwriter moves amidst
its darker moments. As a classically trained musician, Pallot
shows off her talents frequently - wringing raw emotion from
her piano and guitar with a delicious grace. Songs like DAMASCUS
and IDAHO reveal the more intense side, Pallot
delivering stark piano led songs that drip with dark beauty
and subdued emotion. The more textured likes of MR
KING hint at a 70s Laurel Canyon influence, fingerpicked
guitar patterns joined by warm keyboard washes and gentle
atmospherics - the vocal melodies almost nursery rhyme like
in their soothing simplicity.
EVERYBODY'S GONE TO WAR is a more overtly
pop moment, indie rock guitar shapes and catchy melodies coming
together in a song that brings forth memories of bands like
The Sundays and The Primitives. With similar leanings LEARNING
TO BREATH and HEART ATTACK, move
in the same glorious pop directions - Pallots vocals taking
on an almost operatic sweep as she hits the soaring choruses,
a delicious blend of Siouxsie Sioux and Sinead O'Conner.
The sun drenched pop of album closer ALL GOOD PEOPLE
finds Nerina Pallot about as far from the intensity of her
darker material as you can get, walking a very fine line towards
cheesy pop - and just about getting away with it.
An impressive and satisfying record, FIRES
finds Nerina Pallot edging her way towards becoming a household
name. Deliciously dark in places and refreshingly pop fuelled
in others, FIRES is an album that holds your
attention throughout - truly special and sublime stuff.
Nerina Pallot releases her fast-rising album FIRES on April
17th through 14th Floor Records. Originally available on Pallot's
own DIY label Idaho in 2005, the album made the iTunes Top
10 and led to the Guardian tipping Pallot as, 'One of the
hottest acts of 2006.' Featured in the Records Of The Year
list by The Sunday Times, FIRES continues to snowball with
sales over 10,000 on little more than word of mouth.
Born in London to a half-French father and Indian-born mother,
Pallot spent part of her childhood in India before settling
in Jersey. In 2002, she released her debut album in the UK
through a major label - an experience that taught her, "many
things, but especially that it's never a good idea to make
a video in which you fly." Parting company with the mainstream
music business, Pallot recorded FIRES between LA and her London
home before releasing the album on her own label Idaho. Produced
by Howard Willing (Smashing Pumpkins), Wendy Melvoin (Prince
& The Revolution) and Eric Rosse
(Tori Amos), the record teams Pallot's classical musical training
with her love of country, folk and rock music - with influences
including Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, Carole King and Rufus
Wainwright. The album has all the makings of a good-old fashioned
groundswell. The Telegraph wrote, "A pop-rock gem. Melodically
rich and lyrically complex." The Times put simply, "A
treasure" and Uncut declared FIRES, "marries fiercely
intelligent songs to memorable tunes and outrageous pop hooks".
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