Me And Armini - Emiliana Torrini

Working my way through the latest album by Glastonbury acts this year, I've been pretty disappointed but this one took me by surprise, I expected nothing of it but seem to have found a gem that I wasn't aware of. My favourite track comes omplete with Pigeon Street sound effects, the slightly dub influenced jazzy title track Me & Armini seems to lyrically grab you by the throat in a way that "Don't Speak" by No Doubt did. The vocalist's suave Icelandic voice sounds a cross between Bjork and more contemporary artists like Amy Winehouse, the result is probably better than both. A lot of the songs are slow and I have a tendency ...  Read the complete review

Emiliana Torrini is one of those artists who are seemingly incapable of finding a genre they like and sticking with it, instead flitting between styles, picking up an influence here, a reference there. Her two internationally released albums have each shown a very different style - the first, Love in the Time of Science, fitting comfortably in the trip-hop/ pop genre, while the second, Fisherman's Woman, saw her pair up with instrumentalist and producer Dan Carey and head down a more melancholic folk road. Her latest release, Me and Armini, sees her combine a whole host of influences to meld them together into a pop album that should appeal to almost anyone. ...  Read the complete review