Travelling Like The Light - VV Brown

I was pleasantly surprised by this album. Quite a few months ago I had seen a fantastically catchy song on the Sunday Night Project, which after doing some research afterwards turned out to be Crying Blood and the singer V V Brown. Straight away I went on to buy the song, but at the time, there was no other songs by her released for purchase. Fast forward a few months and then this album is released along side her new single. After having a few listens to the album, I am pleasantly surprised - I hadn't read any previous write ups or reviews, so wasn't sure what to expect. There are a lot of catchy tunes with retro/nostalgic sounding undertones, but there's also some ones ...  Read the complete review

A mixture of dance, pop and rock with a definite retro edge, I was quite excited about listening to VV Brown's latest abum "Travelling Like the Light", unfortunately it's no where near as good as I had imagined it to be from what I'd read about it. The album seems a little bit overproduced and has made it a little bit more poppier than necessary, there's definite hints of joy but it's no oddity and not a great deal different to contemporary commercial acts, it's no more than alternative than the likes of Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen and Regina Spektor, I'm not really keen on this new in between level of mediocrity that seems to be plaudited by many and ...  Read the complete review