Tims House - Kate Walsh

Tims House, Kate Walsh, 2007. This is an interesting album. I downloaded this from iTunes after getting one of her tracks as the weekly freebie and was quite taken with her voice which is a strange mixture of sweet, yet powerful in a controlled but soft and very, very sophisticated way. Apparently she started out with a myspace page (as many good artistes now do) and hails from Essex. This is not her first album, it is her third. She is listed as 'folk' and it is easy to make comparisons with Kate Rusby or the like but she has something a little different for me. It is hard to describe her appeal other than to say her voice ...  Read the complete review

This is a beautiful, sensual, sensitive and delicate album. Before I purchased this album, I had never heard of Kate Walsh. I came accross her randomly on itunes when she was "hit single" and I am utterly in love with her music now. The first song I heard was "Talk of the Town" from this album and I literally dropped everything when I heard it. It gets me everytime. Her voice is so unbelievably pure and theres a simplicity there that is just so raw and mystical. This album hypnotizes me! I paid £7.99 for this album from Itunes, but I have also seen it there at £5.99 recently. Kate Walsh is a 24 year old singer/songwriter from Brighton, England. ...  Read the complete review