Fires - Nerina Pallot

Advantages: amazing voice, fantastic collection of songs
Disadvantages: underrated artist

I remember waaaay back last year when I was flicking through the TV channels, and to my surprise caught sight of a man throwing a big wet COD across a supermarket at someone - now, call me a freak if you will, but I see that as high quality entertainment. So it was with interest I watched the video further and realised that the song accompanying the 'cod-thrower' was actually pretty good aswell. The artist? Nerina Pallot. I immediately logged onto ...
...and they were very good - I bought the album at the first opportunity and, I must say, it is truly amazing. Here voice is so pure and she is one hell of a talented composer. Here is my track by track review. TRACK 1: EVERYBODY'S GONE TO WAR Not only a very amusing and light hearted video, but a nice up tempo song with deep and truthful lyrics. She sings about her thoughts on war (most likely inspired by Iraq) on a personal level, but a level that ... Read review

Advantages: catchy!
Disadvantages: some of the songs are rare!

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Advantages: fresh and beautiful music
Disadvantages: none

...Who? I know what you mean, Id never heard of her until my friend thrust the CD into my hand and said, "You have got to listen to this". Now my friend Simon, for it is he, has discerning musical taste and past experience has proved that if he says I need to listen to an artist that I have been hitherto unaware of, I should do just that. Again he proved to me that he knows what I like in music better than I do myself, and Nerina Pallot is an artist that I should have known about years ago. I did a bit of research regarding the artist I question which I will share with you before I get down to the music. The first thing I found is that she is a difficult women to find out anything about, her record label run official website is selling its space and contains no real information, NME has almost nothing to say and a handful of fan sites... Read review

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