Jenny Queen
Small Town Misfits
ABC Music / Universal
Three albums in
now, and US-born, Sydney based Jenny Queen is beginning to make an impact. For
while Small Town Misfits, with its shiny,
considered production and occasionally freewheeling vocal delivery is, at its
core, a pop album, it brings with it enough lyrical weight and raw musicianship
to have it sitting amongst most Americana/country releases with relative ease.
Produced by Shane
Nicholson, Queen has been encouraged to loosen up somewhat, “The more fucked
up, the better”, as she says is the album’s motto, at the behest of Nicholson.
It works quite well when she takes heed of the advice, particularly on tracks
like ‘Wait For The Night’ with its shimmering pedal steel; ‘Blood Meridian’,
which begins simply before flowering into a storming country rumbler; and
‘Austin’, where her voice is complimented by Brooke McClymont’s backing vocal.
Small Town Misfits isn’t an album which will instantly grab you, taking
you to some smoke-stained Nashville bar, but rather it’s a grower; a considered
work that heralds bigger things to come.
3/5
Samuel J. Fell
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