Dairy of Your Heart – Joy and Lara
Behave now! I know, look at the title, so pretty and so girly! Look at the two of them…so pretty and sooo girly! I mean one of them is even call Joy… Behave!! Joy and Lara are perhaps better known as members of The Whippersnappers and electric string quartet FourPlay respectively. Folk pop is their thing; and there is plenty that will appeal here to those who know them and those who will stumble their way. Lara So Far Away stands out, not the least because of some fine saxaphone work by Andy Kell, the song concluding just as he has been let loose (please Madam’s; can I have some more?). Elsewhere they are quiet but assured in their songwriting, with sweet and soulful melodies and harmonies, honed over years of knowing where to be and when not to be. Diary of Your Heart is a heartfelt album about new motherhood; rhyming profound and sound and proud and getting away with it. Perhaps they could give Ben Lee some tips. Was I good? Did I behave?
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