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Singer/songwriter Lettie refers to herself as a ‘memory collector’. She obsessively collects postcards,newspaper clippings, books, and trinkets as a way to quell her nostalgic longing for times and emotions past.
This sense of nostalgia is weaved into the fabric of herlatest record, Good Fortune, Bad Weather. Like the curios and oddities collects, she has gathered together a pallet of sounds from bygone eras and with them created a refreshing and modern album that gives a knowing nod to 80’s new wave, disco and even folk.
Good Fortune, Bad Weather is a delightfully quirky collection of electro-pop goodies. Listening to it is like digging into a bigbag of dolly mixture. Lettie’s songsare almost childlike in their innocence. That’s not to say she’s immature,there is a level of understated sophistication in the simplicity lyrics like “I want to move to Spain/Eat the oranges andfeel the pain.” As heard in the little gem that is ‘Never Want To Be Alone.’
Musically, she has a perfect pop sensibility, and an eclectic taste. Although the songs, which she co-wrote with producer David Baron, all have Lettie’s unique stamp on them, there’s an array of styles tempos and instrumentation on display. She’s also assembled an accomplished group of session musicians to perform her dainty little numbers.
‘Lucky’, for example is led a delightfully simple, cheery piano riff and accompanied by no more than kick-snare drum beat and some subtle synths. ‘Digital’, on the other hand is, as the title would suggest, a full on electro tune made with fat bass modulators, a four-to-the-floor drum beat and euphoric melodies. The title track is also a revelation. Its laidback, slightly sultry dub groove makes one of the more mature sounding songs on the record.
It’s the quirkiness that runs through songs like these that means she’ll probably never bother the mainstream like the Lilly Allens, the Robyn's and the La Roux's of the world, with whom she shares some characteristics, but at the same time she’s better for it. Fans with a taste just slightly left-field of the artists above should definitely add Good Fortune, Bad Weather to their memory collection.
This sense of nostalgia is weaved into the fabric of herlatest record, Good Fortune, Bad Weather. Like the curios and oddities collects, she has gathered together a pallet of sounds from bygone eras and with them created a refreshing and modern album that gives a knowing nod to 80’s new wave, disco and even folk.
Good Fortune, Bad Weather is a delightfully quirky collection of electro-pop goodies. Listening to it is like digging into a bigbag of dolly mixture. Lettie’s songsare almost childlike in their innocence. That’s not to say she’s immature,there is a level of understated sophistication in the simplicity lyrics like “I want to move to Spain/Eat the oranges andfeel the pain.” As heard in the little gem that is ‘Never Want To Be Alone.’
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Her singing voice is pleasant enough if not that strong, but what she lacks in technical ability she makes up for by injecting her eccentric personality into the songs, giving them a kind of nerdy yet über cool charm. You can imagine her dressed in charity shop rags doing her thing infront for a bunch of Shoreditch hipsters in some dingy bar, singing in that rigid almost mock-robotic style that the cool crowd have favoured since the days of Gary Numan and Kraftwerk. Musically, she has a perfect pop sensibility, and an eclectic taste. Although the songs, which she co-wrote with producer David Baron, all have Lettie’s unique stamp on them, there’s an array of styles tempos and instrumentation on display. She’s also assembled an accomplished group of session musicians to perform her dainty little numbers.
‘Lucky’, for example is led a delightfully simple, cheery piano riff and accompanied by no more than kick-snare drum beat and some subtle synths. ‘Digital’, on the other hand is, as the title would suggest, a full on electro tune made with fat bass modulators, a four-to-the-floor drum beat and euphoric melodies. The title track is also a revelation. Its laidback, slightly sultry dub groove makes one of the more mature sounding songs on the record.
WATCH // 'Lucky'
It’s the quirkiness that runs through songs like these that means she’ll probably never bother the mainstream like the Lilly Allens, the Robyn's and the La Roux's of the world, with whom she shares some characteristics, but at the same time she’s better for it. Fans with a taste just slightly left-field of the artists above should definitely add Good Fortune, Bad Weather to their memory collection.
Good Fortune, Bad Weather is out now on Outerworld Records
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