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Charlotte Martin: Steel
Charlotte Martin passed my ears many months ago, but that was before Veins appeared in iTunes. Steel is a track from her major label debut album, On Your Shore, sweeping up the musical ideas and traditions of her peers and predecessors, particularly Tori Amos, but melds them together more expertly than one might expect.
Steel frankly annihilates most other songs, and illustrates how deeply embedded, internalised, her faith is, without sounding patronising or obvious, whilst retaining the expressive freedom that’s permitted in contemporary music. Gifted.
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