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Liejacker | 
 enlarge | Artist: Thea Gilmore
Label: Universal
Category: Music
List Price: £9.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 276
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 684340001929
EAN: 0684340001929
ASIN: B0015IRQ44
Release Date: May 19, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: This CD is in MINT condition and has NEVER been played
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| » | Old Soul | | » | Black Letter | | » | Dance In New York | | » | Rosie | | » | Roll On | | » | Icarus Wind | | » | Wrong Side | | » | Slow Journey | | » | And You Shall Know No Other God | | » | When I Get Back To Shore | | » | Breathe | | » | Lower Road | | » | You Spin Me Round |
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Amazon.co.uk review
Prolific British singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore returns with her eighth album in ten years, and it will come as no surprise to those that have followed her work since she was a teenager that Liejacker is as dense with natural smoky jazz mannerisms, fine folk details and stark soul-searching lyrics as anything she's committed to record before. The humble consistency across these 12 original tracks, and one slightly obtuse but perfectly infectious country cover of Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me Round Like A Record", is particularly noticeable, surpassing even that of 2005's fêted major label debut Harpo's Ghost. This record is much softer, less glossy, and knowingly less bold--suiting her reacquaintance with an independent label. Yet it still tugs as intently at your heartstrings with the willing, deeply set melodies evident through "Old Soul", an effective, wanting duet with Dave McCabe of The Zutons, the waltzing autumnal "Dance In New York" and woozy baritone jazz of "Wrong Side". In Liejacker she has crafted a record that fairly closely peers Kathryn Williams' stirring Brit folk, or Beth Orton with weights around her dainty ankles. But it especially thrives on an often astonishingly powerful voice, exhibiting great range and echoing established talents like Annie Lennox or Alison Moyet. Fame surely can't evade her forever, as this once again reminds that she leaves lightweights Katie Melua and Norah Jones in the shade every time. --James Berry
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If you buy only one Thea Gilmore album... June 17, 2008
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Each earlier album has some stand-out tracks - suggesting the possibility of a great album. And here it is!
 Experience shows... June 8, 2008
The ingenue waif gives way to the woman of experience, the writing records more fact and less intimation and thus 'Liejacker' (a reference to the truth-skewing culture of spin) is Thea Gilmore's most personal work to date. Some soul-baring here, depression-prompted by the up of the birth of the first child, the down of the split with a long-standing manager and the loss of a record company, yet the cold and maudlin beauty of langourous 'Icarus Wind' and the scab scratchy 'And You Shall No Other God But Me' defy the black dog by signing some hope and redemption ahead. Lighter touches in catchy-chorused 'You Spin Me Right Round' and a ceilidh in 'When I get Back To The Shore' regain a collective balance here, and the excellent US and UK-sourced production work and playing (guests include fans as diverse as The Zutons' Dave McCabe and Joan Baez) lift this collection to that level where you are back wondering, when will that Thea Gilmore be a star? She has the edge.
Thea delivers the goods May 29, 2008
Thea Gilmore is one of Britain's most underrated gems, a singer/songwriter of intelligence and passion, and this is the perfect place to discover her, as she presents what is arguably her best album to date. After the hard, glossy production of "Harpo's Ghost", "Liejacker" feels more organic, with a bluesy folk sensibility, as if Thea is taking some time to reflect and reach deeper and further for her inspiration. While this album lacks the rocking edge of, say, "Songs from the Gutter", it instead displays a breathtaking warmth and maturity that blossoms, on repeated listenings, to a thing of beguiling, thought-provoking beauty. The result is her most consistently satisfying album and one that I, personally, cannot stop listening to. It's time she got the recognition she deserves.
Typical Thea, typically different May 25, 2008
As with previous albums from Thea Gilmore, the one thing that's predictable is that you can't really predict what you're going to get until you listen. The sharp lyrics familiar from those earlier albums are still there, but the pace is slower and on balance the sound smoother. But that is just 'on balance'. As with earlier albums, the variety is amazing. The duets that top and tail the main part of the album are a new departure on Thea's albums and the last, with Joan Baez, works better, to my ear, than the one that opens the album. But that's a minor criticism. Highlights for me are the close-up breathy menace of "And you shall know no other god but me" and the more melodic but slightly haunting "Icarus wind".
Why only four stars rather than the five that other reviewers have given? Because to me the short "When I get back to shore" (sounding a bit like the recording team having a bit of a lark in the studio) and the cover version tagged on the end as a bonus track seem completely out of place - hard to achieve though that is on an album with as much variety as this. But the highlights of the album are very high and more than make up for that.
As good as ever May 23, 2008
Writing this after only a few plays, but the new album seems to be as good as any of Thea's previous work (ie. very good indeed).
Standout tracks include The Lower Road (with Joan Baez), Dance in New York, Icarus Wind, Roll on, Rosie, Old Soul ... actually all of it! Thea's songs are as good as ever, her voice has improved if anything, and the playing and production are spot on. A Mercury prize nomination or similar would be fitting.
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