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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Reading other reviewers' comments I expected more than this less than memorable sequence of uncatchy and slightly poppy tunes. Granted I've only listened once (and will post another review if it grows on me) but this collection for me appears to share no DNA with the magnificance of One Morning Dove.
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Dot Allison could probably be accused of inconsistency, as every album she releases seems to be driven by a need to radically depart from her previous style. This would be a major issue if she wasn't such a darn fine song writer.
On 'Exaltation of Larks' - a title I assume references the likes of Vaughan Williams - Allison becomes a folk-driven singer-song writer, replete with accompanying banjos, folk violin, lots and lots of pretty lo-fi style picked stringed instruments and the spectre of Nick Drake lending an ephereal guiding hand. She seems to have adopted a very old fashioned way of recording her voice so that it is simultaneously dense yet fragile ... in truth some people aren't going to like this much. In places it veers dangerously towards parady; but for the strength of the material and the sincerity of the performance, this could work to the detriment of the album.
Of course the opposite comes much nearer to the truth, that 'Exaltation of Larks' plays out like a melencholic tribute to a moment where female innocence is emancipated without denying the emancipation of woman. Thus Allison gets to put together a beautiful set of songs about love and loss, without once straying into slushy sentiment (witness 'You Dropped your Soul').
Blinding stuff - the stuff of legends. One day she'll be discovered - maybe this will be a good thing, maybe not. In the meantime she gets better and better...
On 'Exaltation of Larks' - a title I assume references the likes of Vaughan Williams - Allison becomes a folk-driven singer-song writer, replete with accompanying banjos, folk violin, lots and lots of pretty lo-fi style picked stringed instruments and the spectre of Nick Drake lending an ephereal guiding hand. She seems to have adopted a very old fashioned way of recording her voice so that it is simultaneously dense yet fragile ... in truth some people aren't going to like this much. In places it veers dangerously towards parady; but for the strength of the material and the sincerity of the performance, this could work to the detriment of the album.
Of course the opposite comes much nearer to the truth, that 'Exaltation of Larks' plays out like a melencholic tribute to a moment where female innocence is emancipated without denying the emancipation of woman. Thus Allison gets to put together a beautiful set of songs about love and loss, without once straying into slushy sentiment (witness 'You Dropped your Soul').
Blinding stuff - the stuff of legends. One day she'll be discovered - maybe this will be a good thing, maybe not. In the meantime she gets better and better...
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
unlike anything you've ever heard before. understated, breathlessly beautiful, warm, intoxicating. like floating into outer space in an ocean of love. the 3rd installment in an extraordinary series of albums.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
An un-earthly case of larking about
The critics have been rather beastly about Dot Allison's third solo album claiming it's anything from MOR mush to as flat and dull as East Anglia. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2007 by russell clarke
"...take a bow..."
I was really into Dot's WE ARE SCIENCE and had heard some One Dove so didn't know what to expect but I started hanging out on her myspace page and hearing samples and stuff and I... Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2007 by Jimmy C.
A great voice is never enough!
'Exaltation of Larks' is a massive disappointment if you expected progression from the wondefully lo-fi 'We Are Science'. Read more
Published on 17 Sep 2007 by D. J. Hoggett
exaltation of dot
again and again dot allison is able to dip into the zeitgeist, transform it and transcend it. quietly, she has emerged as a bit of an aural-auteur, a master and commander of her... Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2007 by attack-nyc
LIKE NOTHING YOU'VE EVER HEARD BEFORE - AN UNEARTHLY MASTERPIECE
I couldn't agree more. The astonishing DOT ALLISON, after a career-long habit of breaking with tradition and giving her fans so much more than they could ever have expected, has... Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2007 by QUEEN VEE
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