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"Regardless" is a studio album from British female singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore, released 06 May 2013 on the Fullfill label.
Gilmore returns from the maternity ward to deliver a batch of songs pregnant with metaphor and abstraction, and a soft new production gloss.
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Gilmore herself admits the time she took away from music helped refresh her approach to making music, resulting in a more confident sound, and this is certainly evident throughout. Gilmore’s voice is augmented by some forceful rocky arrangements, notably on ‘Start As We Mean To Go On’ and opener ‘Something To Sing About’ – while the former is oddly positioned in the middle of the record, the first track does pledge to “raise some eyebrows, raise some hell”. ‘Let It Be Known’ is also indicative of an artist unafraid to speak her mind.
There are tender moments too though, with the title track standing out along with the soaring ‘Punctuation’ and ‘My Friend Goodbye’, which wraps up the album in gorgeous, heart-rending fashion – a ballad of letting go, but shot through with love and hope as Gilmore sings: “Some things we’ll always know/Hearts and distances grow/ Just give me enough rope/ And I’ll still hang on to hope”.
The dominant presence of strings among the instrumentation owes much to Gilmore’s most recent project ‘Don’t Stop Singing’, on which she served as an interpreter for the unused lyrics of the late Sandy Denny and found that an expansive string-laden sound suited not only those songs but also her voice.
A beautiful album – lyrically, musically and, of course, vocally – Regardless is a worthy addition to Gilmore’s already impressive catalogue. --- forfolkssake.com
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