Sandy Denny - SandyLabel: Island Records ILPS 9207 Format: LP Country: UK Released: 1972 Used Condition VG+ VG (small spine split)

of us has got to go/ said Oscar Wilde/ and then he died’)

The album finds Kate NV singing in Russian

Bully) in Toronto

Girl Ray are the sound of that uncertain period in everybody‰۪s life when the rest of it starts to loom large

the string arrangements are apocalyptic rather than saccharine

but it’s also a pretty good metaphor for life in 2018

regardless of the environment in which it’s heard

but it’s also intensely focused and refined

Originally inspired by library music and the sound-world of British public information films

The result is a set that startles with its rhythmic instinct and shape shifting composition

DINKED EDITION:

on John Felice's days with The Modern Lovers