Amanda Mair: Amanda Mair – review

(Labrador)Seventeen-year-old Amanda Mair is Swedish, so we can take it as read that she has the pop gene – specifically, the strand that expresses itself as frothy melancholia, a la Robyn and Lykke Li. She's already much blogged-about, perhaps to her detriment: can a teenager who doesn't yet write her own songs live up to comparisons to Kate Bush and Fleetwood Mac? Maybe she will in years to come, but on this debut she's merely a sweet-voiced muse, singing small, pretty songs with aplomb, but ...

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