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Her Name In Lights
Into The Light Again
Laughing Outlaw Records
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written by Hattie N
Sep 14, 2005.
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It would be wrong to take advantage of the fact that “Her Name In Lights” are Australian, and mention a trivial detail such as the fact that they’ve just lost the Ashes. So here’s a promise, the remainder of this review will definitely not mention cricket…that often.
Especially as lead singer/songwriter Mary Wyer, ironically, doesn’t seem one to let things go lightly (geddit?), “Into The Light Again” actually being one giant fuck you to a boy, albeit a very graceful and elegant one. Opener “Here She Comes” is a fitting introduction, a somewhat optimistic acoustic delight telling the tale of, to put it bluntly, getting over it. Like other highlights “You Know I Really Loved That Boy” and “Car”, it easily showcases what is to be expected from this album: lush instrumentation with sweeping guitar strums and soaring piano; heartfelt, sincere but mature lyrics and Wyer’s sugar-sweet little-girl-lost vocals. Though there is a lack of variation here, “Into…” has similarity not sameyness. Instead, there is a recurring theme to the lyrics and to the album’s feel and aura too; a theme of regret, remembrance and, ultimately, resurrection.
As impossible to leave out snide jives about the cricket in this review would be not to comment on track 12, “Sex Bomb”. Yes you read correctly, “Sex Bomb”. That painful disco-pop Tom Jones single from a few years back is inventively revitalized as a genuine and earnest lo-fi lament of lust and longing, which somehow fits in perfectly.
But then this is quite a special little album. It is not at all “trendy”, being less music for girls to dance to, and more music for girls to cry to, get angry at whatever good-for-nothing man has broken their heart to, and finally move on with their life to. But because it doesn’t fit into this or any other musical time period, it is timeless. An indie-opera for the sensitive, free and hopeful. Now back to the cricket…
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