Little Fish

31st August 2011

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Little Fish's Wonderful in Nightshift →

What a great review from our favourite local music rag:

Watching Little Fish play at Cornbury Festival, it was striking just how much more rich and powerful singer Julia Sophie’s voice was than any of the far more experienced blues singers on show over the weekend.

She’s always been a singer of extraordinary talent of course but since working with Linda Perry she’s discovered even greater depths of vocal strength and flexibility and that shows on this new single, one that finds Little Fish sounding far more like a three-piece than a year or so ago when Hammond player Ben Walker felt a little like a tagged-on extra to Julia and Nez’s unfettered garage rock. In fact, having watched Ju and Ben’s set as a duo at Truck, you wonder if this isn’t a direction they’re heading more towards.

On ‘Wonderful’, the organ swirls and howls around the melody sumptuously, lifting Julia’s voice higher than before, the song feeling awash with a sense of jubilation where previously Little Fish have mined a darker lyrical seam – ‘Wonderful’ feels like a ‘Sunday Morning’ to ‘Darling Dear”s ‘Heroin’.

You sense this marks entry into a more mainstream musical world but not at the expense of the band’s heart and soul, which still shine bright as ever. And catch the excellent animated video for the single if you can; it’s a fantastic slice of psychedelic whimsy, reminiscent of Mew’s Jonas Bjerre or Wladyslaw Starewicz’s early-80s work.

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