![]() This kind of song can easily be mawkish without effort but this song avoids these pitfalls, mainly as it is such a wonderful tune and lyrically avoids becoming too sugary, despite it repeated refrain “Everything about you is wonderful.” There’s a tip of the hat to Patti Smith, but it stamps Martha Wainwright’s personality as the indisputable core of this album – a point that is driven home with ‘Franci’, a mother’s love song to her child. Opener ‘Around The Bend’ is an end of year mixtape cert: it’s an organic, high-on-drama-and-melody-with-a-bitter-sweet-lyric killer of a song. Made with her long-time producer, collaborator, husband and father of her children ( Brad Alberta) her powerful voice is given free rein to pour from these songs in the fluid, languid way that more often than not has seemed at an arm’s length away. How will this release hold up against her previous LPs?…Īs a fan since her early releases I’ve always longed for an album that carried the quality of the early EP’s ‘BMFA’ title track. Up until now her career highlight has arguably been 2009’s album of Edith Piaf songs. This is Martha Wainwright’s fourth album of original songs since her first, 2005’s eponymous debut. ![]() Album review: Martha Wainwright – Goodnight City
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