Alice Gold: Seven Rainbows – review

(Fiction)Details of English newcomer Alice Gold's past are sparse; she seems to have simply materialised, fully-formed, at age 28, with an album of pop-rock she says was modelled on Janis Joplin. While Joplin's hard-living raunchiness surfaces in a couple of songs, notably on the come-hither blues-rocker Conversations of Love, Seven Rainbows is more accurately defined by its velvety heart, which places her closer to Françoise Hardy and Melanie. It's not all reverb and double-tracked vocals,...

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