Eliza Carthy: Neptune – review

(Hem Hem)Carthy has always resisted being corralled into a folk ghetto – remember her drum'n'bass album back in '98? – and the self-penned Neptune sets her supple vocals to arrangements that borrow from cabaret, tango, music hall and reggae. A more live-in-studio affair than 2008's Dreams of Breathing Underwater, it's also an autobiographical song cycle of Carthy's last decade, crammed with domestic bust-ups - "blood on the ceiling!" – and torch ballads such as "Romeo", plus the odd politi...

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