SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: CLÉMENTINE MARCH – POWDER KEG

CLÉMENTINE MARCH
POWDER KEG
PRAH RECORDINGS

Clémentine March is a French British singer and multi-instrumentalist based in London, and if a first thing that comes to your mind is a possible connection to Stereolab, formally there isn’t one. Musically, though March’s latest album Powder Keg has all the trademarks of a great new Stereolab album.

Oh, and March is not a copyist, but like Stereolab, her musical style is so hard to pin down, as she veers all over the place, from sixties pop musings whether it is the psych pop or French yé-yé, or Brazilian Bossa to krautrock and anywhere else that she fancied at that moment.

And she does it with some great flair, whether she takes on the instrumentation herself or whether accompanied by quite an excellent set of supporting guests, creating some free flowing fluid and easy on the ear music that is actually quite hard to create right, as March seems to do it with her eyes closed.

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