I'm Not Sure At All is the stunning debut album by Marlody who whole growing up was a much garlanded classical Pianist, who turned away from the strictures of the classical world and has now emerged as a rather wonderful ethereal singer and player, who has made this bewitching album.
The album opens with Summer a classical piano led quietly beautiful song, with Marlody's Sandy Denny style English folk vocals, making you listen carefully to the lyrics about her memories of her mother as well as her loneliness and isolation, while trying to escape the control of her father who still calls her mother's name in his darkest moments.
Runaway slowly builds on this sensitive updating of what could be a classic Stevie Nicks style song. It's achingly familiar. Feeling like she's wistful for the adventure, while still being unsure of exactly where she should run too. The piano is joined by spare percussion and then a chorus of voices.
Change takes place around a piano figure that repeats and evolves slightly as song of trying to come to terms with how your life has evolved and changed, not for the better all the time.
These Doubt has skittery drum & bass style percussion that Marlody sings over in a Stina Nordensturm kind of way as the doubt and worry have isolated her.
Malevolence is an angry rant in favor of hitting the idiots you want to hit, this is in the vein of Amanda Palmer, as the sweet piano line plays against the violence of the lyrics, this is nasty, catchy and beautiful all at the same time.
Up is all hushed fragility, for those times when you're all pilled up, trying to make sense of the world, but feel like everything is just a dream.
Wrong is gentle evocation of love for someone you have already split up from, as you wonder how things would have gone if you were still together, as the piano gently rolls by, as you stare into the emptiness of life without them.
Words has an ethereal 80's vibe somewhere between All About Eve and Capercaillie, but slow lush harmonies whisper all of the things you did to your lover to make them leave, the way Marlody says sorry should make anyone's heart melt and forgive her those transgressions, as she tries to change her ways.
Friends In Low Places we've all had a few of those, who need to be avoided at times and embraced heartily at others. This is super hushed confession of being off the rails, embracing it as it slowly builds, then falls like the waves of a good or bad trip, which one will it be, Marlody whispering clues and answers to you.
Otherly is a deep dreamscape vision of all your other selves trying to break through this deep ambient malaise floating in the wild waters so so gently shall this tune go as it intoxicates, needs to be heard in a candlelit room wreathed in incense as you listen and marvel in awe at how wondrous this sounds.
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