Review:
'LIKE A THIEF'
'CARTOGRAPHY SONG (single)'
- Label: 'Stone Trax Records'
- Genre: 'Pop'
- Release Date: '3rd December 2007'- Catalogue No: 'STOO5'
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'Cartography Song is 'Like A Thief's second single after their debut 'Spiders' and prefaces a full length album called 'The Ritz Tapes' due for release in 2008.
The melody was one 23 year old Holly Jazz Lowe (real name!) played as a pianist and singer at the London Ritz "and other posh places". As it proved so popular she decided to put words to it and record it with her newly formed band.
The song uses the metaphor of a new town map to reflect on how convenient it would be to start over a relationship with a clean slate and so avoiding all the messy baggage from the past. This wishful thinking occurs as she drives on a rainy night to meet a lover - "give me a town with no history and I'll find my own way around".
Lowe sings with a homely voice a little reminiscent of K,D. Lang. It lends the song a pleasant if unspectacular easy listening glow, with all the warmth and reassurance of a log fire on a stormy night.
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author: Martin Raybould
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