![]() ![]() “Seventeen” and “Comeback Kid” are the straightest rock songs (shades of OMD) with some Springsteeny chord progressions (she was born an hour away from him in New Jersey). She is touching when she roams backwards – nostalgia from a still-young person is always bittersweet. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities. ![]() Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.The energy of her exceptionally honest bangers was seen to have been generated by the friction of one or two particularly bad relationships – as though behind every great female songwriter, there had to be an unpleasant man. I was working on a men’s music magazine when Wainwright’s record came out and the consensus – not helped by a cover image that showed her upside down on a sofa in fishnets – was that while she’d asserted her creative power over her famous family, she was still a bit vulnerable and “crazy”. Both are night-time listens: rain-streaked, confessional, confident, melodic, propulsive and dark. Music can be so odd – two albums may not sound the same at all, but they feel the same. Like a random flashback triggered from a taste or a smell, my brain recalled the album I’d have been listening to ten years ago on the same journey: Martha Wainwright’s I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too. I first heard her new (and fifth) album, Remind Me Tomorrow, on the top deck of a 134 bus barrelling into central London on a wet Sunday night. ![]() She remarked that they were very attached to old songs she’d written about an abusive relationship she’d spent much of her twenties in, and she’d started to view that attachment with some suspicion. Recently, and rather beyond the call of duty, the New York singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten retrained as a counsellor: she had so many fans pouring their hearts out to her after gigs that she wanted to understand them better. ![]()
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