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Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons - Four Cold Angels
- Four Cold Angels is the new release from Lorraine Leckie and Her Demons. The fresh diversity ripens into a glorious set of tracks that doesn’t wander off on tangents as it still has the basics and then branches off. Lorraine sets her grasp on a myriad of styles with the tinkering humming of the harmonica for that soothing country song to the hard rock steady guitar and banging drums for that good old fashioned rock n roll.
Some artists tend to create a series of songs that end up following the same formula resulting in a bland repetitive sound for an hour. Four Cold Angels starts slow and with a grand build and an introduction of variation that snowballs into a poignant sound coming full circle at its conclusion.
There’s sort of a European punk rhythm ingrained in the vocals that really give it a bouncy feel. The lyrics are certainly intriguing and thought provoking right from the start as it doesn’t delve into the standard lovesick numbers. The opening song is about a getaway car after the convincing swaying of knocking a place off.
Lorraine Leckie and Her Demons offer an offbeat take and a real curveball that whizzes by bringing a kooky smile to your face. Even the closing track has a hint of Irish sentiment. Four Cold Angels has chants and praises of obscurity, which is new to hear. For the most part, it has a prancing and giddy feel to it that may ease into a leisurely stroll during the slower tracks. Lorraine and the gang whip up a whopper of tracks that sparks the imagination.
MICHAEL @ WLUR 91.5 FM:
“Good ol' no-nonsense folk rocker from this singer songwriter out of Ontario. Pretentiously claiming Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Verlaine as interests, Leckie howls fragmented poetry... Start with 'Ontario' and 'You're So Cool.' ”
AIKIN @ LICORICE-PIZZA.BLOGSPOT.COM:
“Getaway Car” [is] one of my favorites...
“Four Cold Angels,” shows off Leckie’s Neil Young influence on a country-tinged song...The mid-tempo songs... bring[s] to mind Holly Golightly as much as anything. The music sounds almost folkish, or country, but there’s more to it than simply strumming an acoustic guitar and crying in your beer. Listen close to the words...”
DAVID N. PYLES @ ACOUSTICMUSIC.COM:
“With an invigorating vocal style crossing Grace Slick with the aforementioned Smith... Leckie is a trip on the Lower East Side and in the Brooklyn clubs.”
VILLAGE VOICE: “[She is] an Ontario folkie gal… naively likeable”
ANTON NEWCOMBE / BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE: “She’s great…”
AMPLIFIER MAGAZINE: “She’s seductive, salacious, serendipitous, selective, surly, sure-footed, symbiotic, stark, strong, shambolic, squat, scandalous, satirical, salient, salubrious, sage-like, shiny… and Canadian. Leckie’s tunes come highly recommended if you like: a female version of Neil Young, Shelby Lynne, Lucinda Williams, Ani DiFranco, Mary Lou Lord, and Michelle Shocked. Choice cut: “Lady Hurricane,” which could be mistaken for Grace Slick & Crazy Horse.
MUSIC DISH: “The real deal.”
CHUCK EDDY: “The one that sounds like AC/DC [Rainbow] is the best.”
BIKER BILLY: “The old bat rocks!”
UNDERGROUND BEAT ONLINE: “This woman is a poet with a guitar and one that explores a darker side of humanity with traces of irony and sarcastic humor… a page out of the book of Lou Reed or Edgar Allen Poe.”
MUSIC MAN: “Her lyrics and the way she delivers them are what stand out.”
REBECA MOORE: “[Her voice] cut’s through the night like a purple razor blade. [She is] the real thing.”
CD BABY (“Conscience”): “Like sitting on grassy fields with Harold and Maude trippin’ on some serious shrooms… dark and deep lyrics… like taking a trip down memory lane… there’s hope for somethin’ in this world of ours.”
CD BABY (Tim Knauth): “In the tradition of Country Joe’s darkest hour, and Robin Hitchcock’s glory.” |
