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Album Review

Gabby Young and Other Animals
We're All In This Together Gift of the Gab

Article written by Matt H - Aug 29, 2010

Gabby Young - you want to get a comb through that before I have to cut it out, love.

It seems this album’s been around for a while, garnering praise and earning itself a make-over and some decent distribution. (Not to mention a Sunday Times music mag cover and an *As seen on Sky News* banner for the myspace - maybe one of the Murdochs is a fan...). You can hear that the newly slick presentation suits the opulent sheen of the music, which is skilfully played and characterfully sung. The basic mode is jazzy cabaret with the odd East-European tinge - oompahing interestingly along like a scrubbed up and sanded down Tom Waits or a Tiger Lillies reprogrammed Clockwork Orange-style, against their anti-social instincts.

So most of the time it’s likeable enough, if a little bit grown-up and Radio 4, Loose Ends friendly. (The reference to Mr Buckley in Sour is bound to be Jeff rather than Tim, and rather sums it up - he’s an artist to respect rather than love in my book). Nevertheless there are just enough hook bones rising here and there to make a listen worthwhile: a hard-eyed mania in one segment of Ones That Got Away; the brass and chorusing on Whose House; a bit of a Divine Comedy swagger on Two By Two; and, above all, the title track hits the spot with its gentle echoes of Beth Gibbons’ album with Rustin’ Man.

Such moments still don't do quite enough to convince that the claims made for wailing hoe-downs in concert might be more likely than the general politeness and restraint of the record suggests. But then again, who buys records these days anyway?

Links:
http://gabbyyoungandotheranimals.com/
http://www.giftofthegabrecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/gabbyyoung