It’s about holes in the memory, about love and quarrels, blood runs over the sheets, whiskey is drunk on the beach in the afternoon, the songs are called “Sink” or “Violence”, they’re always about alcohol and dark nights. “I’m starving,” Sophie Jamieson sings, or she wonders, albeit without a question mark in the song title: “Who Will I Be”.
Yes, it’s about watching yourself sink, it’s about losing yourself and the loss of others. Above all, CHOOSING, the London musician’s debut album, is about her voice, which tells much more than the words she squeezes out, moans, growls, growls.
No, the singer/songwriter is not a vocal acrobat, but she gives all wounds and scars their own tone. Consequently, this voice is only carefully accompanied by music, by sparse guitars, by the occasional piano. There is pop music that gets its appeal from being able to get really close to someone. It’s been a long time since anyone was allowed to get as close as Sophie Jamieson.
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