English Rain
Album - 19 songs |

English Rain

Gabrielle Aplin Gabrielle Aplin
2013/05/13
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19 songs
To all intents, English singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin came out of nowhere – at the start of 2012, she was self-releasing feathery relationship ballads; by December, she was at No 1 with a cover of The Power of Love, as heard in the John Lewis Christmas ad.

But before her breakthrough, this 20-year-old had spent years making her music market-ready, while building a following online after publishing covers of songs by bands such as Paramore and You Me at Six on YouTube.

Thus, while her debut album, English Rain tips its hat to her heroes (Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake etc), Aplin has funneled most of her energies into pretty, pastel melodies and lyrics that will ping their way into the hearts of poetic 14-year-olds. At its best, English Rain works up a decent head of acoustic steam while dispensing perceptive relationship wisdom. Sometimes, too, the purity of her voice carries the song; she's lovely when offset by a four-man gospel "choir" on Ready to Question.

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    2013/05/13