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Light Dark |  | Artist: Kate Walsh
Label: BluePie
Category: Music
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 3848
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.3
EAN: 5060006359620
ASIN: B002HMCEN0
Release Date: August 31, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | As He Pleases | | • | Trying | | • | June Last Year | | • | Greatest Love | | • | Light Dark | | • | Seafarer | | • | Be Mine | | • | 1000 Bees | | • | On The Stage | | • | I Cling On For Dear Life | | • | Old Man | | • | Gather My Strength |
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 Pleased to meet this fresh talent September 25, 2009
Mrs. Katharine Kirby (HELSTON, Cornwall United Kingdom)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I only heard a snip of her music the other day on the radio and wanted more. Kate Walsh was a new artiste to me and I am really pleased to have found her. You can clearly hear every note of her guitar and the melodic tone of her lovely voice is beautiful to listen to. Kate Walsh wrote all the songs on this cd and you can imagine how much of herself she has planted in the words and music. 'As He Pleases' is a modern ballad, sweetly sung and the sadly poetic words are a touching story of good love against bad. 'Trying' swings along gently and is a pleasure to hear. 'June Last Year' has a haunting echoing tuneful tone, faster in pace with terrific banjo. "Greatest Love" features perfect guitar picking out the melody and Kate's clear sweet voice whispers wistfully about a real life situation - career and too much work taking over from loving - so true. The namesake of this cd "Light and Dark" isn't really my favourite, it is more meandering and less tuneful, with very differing moods. Appropriate for it's name of course. "Seafarer" is lovely to my ears, rocking wave like rhythm and ringing guitar. "Be Mine" is a stronger song with a louder backing and positive happy words. "1000 Bees" is lively and rocking. On this the Wurlitzer makes for a more powerful busy backing. "On the Stage" is quieter, with percussion, more of a hymn really with poignant, bittersweet, sad words. "I Cling On For Dear Life" rings out as a slow sorry tale of lost love, with gorgeous words. "Old Man" is angry and vengeful, the strings contributing different, important backing. "Gather My Strength" is a passionate last track, with oretty harp, light in texture this is delightful, soft and sweet. Hang on in there my love, sit tight my love..
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br /All in all this cd hangs well together and each song flows on comfortably from the other. A great background sound for working to or more mood altering if listened to carefully. I also like Emiliana Torrini, [ASIN:B0002JEP6O Fisherman's Woman] Katie Melua, Norah Jones, Kate Bush if that gives a clue to my tastes! Lots of Kates (and I am called Kate too)
Simply Magical September 22, 2009
The Wolf (uk)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
OK let's forget 'Tim's House' for a moment.
br /It was a very, very good first outing but
br /Kate Walsh's second showing should get a big
br /thumbs up all to itself. It is a classy piece of work.
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br /For a spooky half-moment on opening track
br /'As He Pleases' I thought I might have been listening
br /to Martha Wainwright, a feeling which gradually subsided
br /as the glorious arrangement opened up to reveal Ms Walsh's
br /highly distinctive, warm but fragile voice glowing at
br /the radiant centre of this beautiful composition.
br /The slippery string glissandi are an enchanting invention.
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br /The album delivers one delicious confection after another.
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br /The simple country-flavoured song 'June Last Year'
br /demonstrates remarkably mature compositional skill.
br /The lilting steel guitar is a playfully effective partner.
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br /Title track 'Light and Dark' is a plaintive, folksy number
br /recounting the confusion and complexity of young romance.
br /The sparse acoustic arrangement frames the exposed voice in all its
br /charming vulnerability, centre-stage, in a perfectly balanced mix.
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br /'Be Mine', once again, displays this young writer's authority
br /in creating elusive melodies which linger longer than the
br /length of the song. Likewise 'On The Stage' whose quirky structure
br /is idiosyncratically, stubbornly and wonderfully unpredictable.
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br /Saving the very best until last, final track 'Gather My Strength'
br /delivers a truly magical conclusion to this captivating project.
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br /Honesty. Authenticity. Tenderness (and not a little humility).
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br /What more could you want really ?
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br /Highly Recommended.
Light Dark and other shades of grey ... September 7, 2009
Polymath (Northants)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's good to have an 'EP' of three of these new songs which revert to Kate and her distinctive guitar alone: Seafarer; On the Stage; and, Greatest Love. That's not to imply anything negative about Tim Bidwell's production which sensitively extends the range of accompanying instruments and textures here which were a key enhancement on the previous album, not insignificantly entitled Tim's House. These simple versions also confirm the continuing strength of Kate's song-writing.
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br /The strongest songs here are those with a smoldering emotional core. The title song, Light and Dark, is a rich exhallation of regret and compressed loathing: 'I left you for another man / And he doesn't deserve me.' The intimacy of the subject matter is reflected in the close to mic recording of Kate's distinctively brittle, but always perfectly executed vocals.
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br /So, this collection is basically Tim's House 2. But given the challenge faced by singer song-writers to hold their particular take on the world amidst the pressures of touring and 'the music business', the girl done great! The big question is, where next? Meanwhile, quietly enjoy ...
A beautiful voice... (Don't hide it) November 6, 2009
MacDaz (UK)
Kate Walsh has a beautiful voice. There can be no doubt about that. I bought Tim's House on the strength of hearing one song and was not disappointed. I bought this without hearing a single song, to my mind there was no risk. I was mostly right. This album clearly continues where Tim's House left off. The vocals are wonderfully delicate but never brittle, like a silk thread there is a strength that belies the superficial weakness, and that is just the sound. When you listen to the lyrics there is a beautifully disguised depth to each song.
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br /BUT... in an effort to move on there is a tendency to slip toward over production on a few of the songs. Sometimes less is definitely more and the bells, whistles and the infernal slide guitar unnecessarily taint that beautiful voice. Sometimes the trick is knowing when to stop and in an effort not to just make the same album again I think, production-wise, this album occasionally strays too far. There are many simple, acoustic, engaging songs that will enchant you in the same way as Tim's House, but every now and again there is a rude awakening, a drunk at the ballet, that shatters the peace and briefly spoils the show. The Country and Western twang of June last year is an incongruous smack in the face that grates against the nerves and stands awkwardly between the songs either side. It upsets me every time I hear it.
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br /Still, don't be put off this is still a wonderful four star album and you can't knock an artist for trying something new. I'd recommend the album, without a doubt, but Kate, if you're reading, please stay away from Nashville next time.
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