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The First Solo Album from the bass player of the wedding present.
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She will probably struggle to remember this but I must admit to a bias here as I knew of Terry De Castro from her days in Bristol back in the (very) early 1990s, when she was playing bass with a local proto-punk covers band. It was listening to the way she took ownership of the bass riff to the Damned's 'Neat Neat Neat' that convinced me she was well on the case way back then. She also possessed an impressively wide range of musical references that appeared even then to be serving her well. This debut solo effort is teeming with subtle & slight musical references that are seldom if ever obvious as she has long since assimilated them into her very own distinctive performances. Terry De Castro is a highly talented musician with a modest personal temperament who places considerable store on personal friendship & it is wholly appropriate that she has elected to issue an album of songs written by her friends & colleagues, some of whom perform with her on these 12 covers. In doing this she repays friendship by highlighting a group of emerging songwriting talents that Terry believes deserving of a decent hearing- which is precisely what they get here. The songs are uniformly good & although I'm dubious about singling any of them out for special attention I'm obliged to let you know that I keep returning to Simone White's 'America In '54', which I think rather special. The biggest surprise of the album as a whole is the mix of garage-band ambience with melancholic strains in the vocal departments: a compelling combination that becomes quite addictive after just a couple of hearings. There's some fine musicianship to enjoy here, interspersed with moments of unexpected beauty. If you need to be convinced of the latter then try yourself out on the album's closer 'To Love You' (written by Astrid Williamson, with whom Terry played in Goya Dress), which is just sheer class: a great song with a great vocal from Terry, wonderful backing vocals & spot-on performances from all concerned (woops, I singled out another one!).
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Terry De Castro shows here she is a talented artist in her own right, I love the way each song owns it's own delicious swirl, each song here is given the De Castro treatment and each song is highly addictive because of this. Having Seen Terry perform as a solo artist as well as with TWP I have to admit I am a massive fan of hers, she is an effortless performer and I for one wish she would hurry along and release some more stuff...and soon!
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This is a peculiar one indeed, i don't know what i expected from the ex-Wedding Present/Goya Dress bass player but this wasn't it!! To have the proverbial sticker on the cd case declaring your Wedding Present past and then to open with one of their best known tracks "dalliance" i think was a mistake. The essence of that song was the typical Gedge passionate vocals and ultimate explosion of guitars but all you get here as a cover is unfortunately a countrified poor relative. However, notwithstanding that poor start the rest of the album is quite enjoyable. The album does have a country feel to it with pedal steel, banjo and plenty of guitar picking on show but she does sometimes move into more obvious indie territory. "Sleep drives" has a lovely chugging guitar line and the lyrics are more dark "bound and gagged from head to toe" (?). It is of course an album of covers and (luckily) i've never heard of most of them which probably helps and it will be interesting if she produces a follow up of her own songs, but this is not a bad start overall.
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