The Beat Surrender

While it’s fair to say that commercially the ladies have been well on top for the last few years, it’s possibly also a fair comment to suggest that a lot of that is to do with clever record companies and their marketing budgets (hello Elllie Goulding) who are able to manipulate talent into a very marketable commodity, which ultimately detracts away from the actual artist themselves.

So it’s nice to see more underground talents emerge, ones that are developing at their own speed, under their own steam and with the talent shining through in the music without the big budgets and push from within the industry…like Emily Breeze.

We sent someone along to reviewer her album launch gig in her own city of Bristol and live it seems she comes alive even more than on record. Her record The Penny Arcade though still bristles with her personality and her smoky vocal hints at a yesteryear without ever completely stepping back to a past decade and keeping the record in the current.

She gives us some real variety on here as well, The Old Grand Pier which closes the album is a deceptively lowkey ballad that is delightful, while she opens the album with a catchy and much faster rockabilly style track in Monday’s Right Hook. Inbetween that you get everything you would expect between those two differnt ends of the musical spectrum, yet it never dips into gimmickery or loses it’s cohesive feel.