Liz Green: O, Devotion! – review

(Play It Again Sam)"I want to be a French singer," trills Liz Green. "I'd sing for you, my lover, all night/ Then maybe we'd learn to float above it all." Those few words encapsulate all she's trying to achieve on her debut album: placing herself outside the earnest, folksy singer-songwriter trope into which so many young female singers are being shoehorned at the moment, and away from the vagaries of fashion, turning instead to a music that's a little bit chanson, a little bit blues, a littl...

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