Martha Tilston: Machines of Love and Grace – review

(Squiggly)So clear is Martha Tilston's voice, with its touch of fragility, that it's easy to think she's always off greeting clouds, an impression reinforced by the whimsical cover of this sixth album. More often, though, Tilston is dissecting a greedy modern world on songs such as Wall Street and More, while Shiny Gold Car sends up the music business ("Meet this lawyer friend of mine/He's just in the bathroom doing another line"). Her vocal tropes ape Joni Mitchell's too brazenly at times (and ...

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