{"product_id":"candlepower","title":"Candlepower","description":"\u003cp\u003eMarina Allen glides on angelic highs, surfing the husky deep; she is one of the great new voices of her generation. Writing songs that carry notes from other realms; these are kitchen table tales about love and fear, the capturing of the wild heart, sketching the breaking of dawn, bringing real life back to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery song on stunning debut mini-album \u003ci\u003eCandlepower\u003c\/i\u003e is a tick box of influences, asides, inspirations, quickfire theories, storylines and melodic progressions that galvanise a chemical reaction for each dramatic scene that unfolds on this genre-traversing seven song epic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne listen to opening track ‘Oh, Louise’ underlines the range of Marina’s talent, it’s a filmic play on words, with an arrangement that’s like a Kate Bush dream sequence. It’s the perfect foil for the plaintive strum of ‘Sleeper Train’, a haunting, folky paean fit for Judee Sill brought up to date with some echoey electric guitar; or the conversational ‘Believer’; with a nod to Joni Mitchell in the lyrics it sounds every bit like Simon And Garfunkel at their Big Apple best listening to the ‘7 O’Clock News’ re-imagined on Sunset.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stuff of legend for a voice that surfs many musical tangents, hovers, and persists, that stings with honesty; morphing from Karen Carpenter’s gentle reverence to Laura Nyro’s soulful grit, moving through the phases like some possessed Dada performance artist before throwing in a melody from Joni at her jazziest or from the close harmonies of the lamented Roches when they flipped out with Robert Fripp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCandlepower\u003c\/i\u003e is a juxtaposition of melodies, an achingly beautiful set of songs set against the clank of the mundane world, a beguiling commentary on the everyday and everywhere. It’s all here, in under 20 minutes… every second counts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"Gold | LP","offer_id":50456235475275,"sku":"1114955","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50456236032331,"sku":"1114953","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50456239735115,"sku":"1114954","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8ad77c27-d842-486f-8ac2-a053fd0dbcb5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727197165","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/candlepower","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}