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Cerys Matthews: Never Said Goodbye
Cerys Matthews’s previous career move was pretty clear. She withdrew from the
pop madness of Catatonia and reinvented herself as a singer-songwriter in a
shack just outside Nashville, which resulted in the rootsy 2003 album
Cockahoop. This, her second solo album, is a lot harder to get your head
round. It begins with a pretty song, Streets of New York, rudely interrupted
by a drum part that appears to have wandered in from a Nine Inch Nails
session. Then you get the best song, A Bird in Hand. The stupid drums return
on Oxygen, but the juxtaposition almost works this time. The album drifts
through several aimless tracks before Morning Sunshine offers some
late-period Monkees pop and Ruby hints at Matthews’s old group. The quality
of the songs varies hugely, then, but Matthews’s voice is consistently
amazing.
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