LUCY WAINRIGHT ROCHE
There’s a Last Time for Everything
lucywainwright.com
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When you’re descended from as much folk royalty as Lucy
Wainwright Roche, you’d better be able to deliver. With this, her second
full-length CD, Roche obliterates all doubt and firmly stamps her own identity.
Her voice is faintly reminiscent of Patti Griffin’s, but Roche is a singer of
many moods–an ethereal and dramatic waif singing across the echoes (“The Year
Will End Again”), a melancholy piano-backed torch singer (“Look Busy”), a queen
of mystery (“Seven Sundays”), and the leader of a sunny folk/pop parade. Two of
the latter are duets, “Seek and Hide” with Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, and
“A Quiet Line” with Mary Chapin Carpenter. Ten originals and a stunning
cover–Roche appropriates Robyn’s heart-thumping club hit “Call Your Girlfriend”
and slows it down to create something as sensitive and fragile as a bruised
rose petal. Roche brings her triumphant release tour to Northampton’s Parlor
Room on November 15.
Rob Weir
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