As regular readers may have gathered, I am more than slightly impressed with Indian Summer, the latest album by Auburn (fronted by the multi talented Liz Lenten). Well it seems that I am no longer a lone voice crying in the metaphorical wilderness (although North Devon can be quite wild), because every day I am receiving more positive reviews of the album.Check out this one for example:
AUBURN...'INDIAN SUMMER'(Scarlet Records) Reviewed 25th April 2012Auburn is a UK electro-acoustic ensemble featuring singer songwriter Liz Lenten. The band has re united after a 10 year hiatus, and this is the group's new cd, featuring 10 tracks of laid back music mixing up-beat and slower tempo electro-acoustic pop, but borrowing from the roots, country and blues genres, even throwing into the mix a touch of reggae too.
Liz has a rather sweet innocent voice with varied musical influences from artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Billie Holliday, Rikki Lee Jones, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin and Kate Bush to name just a few. The bluesy sounding title track one can imagine being sung in a smokey bar, but we don't have any of those over here anymore. Then we have the rather nice 'Free Spirit' with it's rich cello lines, a song that I seemed to have heard somewhere else before.
There is the reggae sounding 'Day Dreamin'', while 'Only You' is the fave for me on this cd. This is not one for the rock or metal freaks out there in music land, but 'Indian Summer' offers up some nice laid back music nonetheless, for those quiet nights in, with each song telling it's own story. An easy listening, inspirational and a rather relaxing 7.75/10 (Dave)
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