On the cover of her debut album, Illinois-born Greta Morgan looks like a 60s 'it-girl'; something which prepares you for the brooding, low key sexuality of the songs.
Morgan is something of a one woman girl band since, barring the bass, she plays all the instruments herself. Her voice is like a French chanteuse so the album as a whole has a chilled, late-night feel.
This mood is well maintained right through to the subdued closing tracks Find A New Game and the instrumental Low Clouds.
Deftly recorded by Black Keys producer Richard Swift, Morgan's hazy torch songs are rendered into what she defines as Technicolor daydream music".
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With cheap keyboard refrains there are vague hints of psychedelia but the songs stay firmly within the constraints of commercial pop.
At her best, on tracks like Name On A Matchbook and Talk To Me Slow, her songs have a languorous Lynchian quality.
There's a breezy charm to the record but with so little meat on the bone, ravenous carnivores are likely to go hungry.
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