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SARAH NIXEY - Sing Memory
| MusicOMH.com | | Take dark themes of dysfunctionality and fractured lives, wrap them in sugar-coated candyfloss melodies and pour them into crystal decanters. Filter them through electronic psychedelics that owe an equal debt to Portishead and Beck and if you can imagine what might come out the other end, you've got a good chance of guessing what Sarah Nixey's first solo album might sound like. Ignore its own subheading - "Through the glitter and the grandeur, there's life in the cabaret" - as there's very little cabaret here and very much more that can be traced back to the influence of producer James Banbury....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | Sarah Nixey was once of Black Box Recorder, but has of late been pursuing her own career as a slightly more traditional pop-songstress. To this end, she’s been writing/collaborating on songs which, although they still have a wry worldly wisdom to temper the romance, are less likely to contain choruses along the lines of “Life is unfair / Kill yourself or get over it”. She’s released a couple of singles already, and now her debut album, Sing, Memory, is ready for unleashing unto the world....full text |
| | StylusMagazine | | Sarah Nixey is well aware of her greatest asset. Barely seven seconds of solo-debut swishy-sparkle ambience has passed before it arrives in a moment of pure, unblemished diction—“This is Sarah Nixey talking.” The voice that launched one thousand sexually-frustrated comparisons to saucy school ma’ams and shared The Facts of Life with a fortunate generation of adolescents, placed up front and direct. It feels like something of a statement....full text |
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