aaamusic | On 31, Oct 2012

I’ve never heard of them before, or read about them. Let’s play these ten mp3s and see what’s all about.

Phobia is a dreaming pop slow tempo that opens the debut album for Me And My Drummer. The voice is soft as the voices she – Charlotte Brandi – hears at night, the ghostly choir surrounds from far away the delicate sounds of this lovely first track. The mood doesn’t change in the following Rain Kids. A steady rhythmic to hold minutes of whispered music and pillow-vocals.

You’re A Runner is the single of the album. Honestly, less interesting as the references to Bat For Lashes and similar are too evident. And I wonder if, beside the pleasure of the singer’s voice, we are actually listening to something that is lacking of original ideas.

There you go, probably the most haunting song of the album arrives. Mother Shell with its dramatic climax, breaks, silences, and angelic orchestration is a beautiful musical hug of intense sadness and hope.

Don’t Be So Hot starts with a piano jazz feeling with a Florence and The Machine-like crescendo. The album lacks of spirit in the religious atmospheres of The Wings, when the energetic change of pace in Down My Couch is definitely more interesting.

Heavy Weight is the second single track of the record. Charlotte sings like Kate Bush, the whole composition is theatrically dramatic. It’s purely emotional, well crafted and very accessible – hello charts!.

Charlotte and her drummer Matze Prolloch created a perfectly produced pop album that evidently takes pieces of Kate Bush, Florence and The Machine and Bat For Lashes to experiment an introspective music that is feelings, emotions. Don’t listen to it when your heart is broken, it would be just too much.

★★★★★

Pietro Nastasi