Ok, let’s get the claim to fame off the table right away, Leanie Kaleido is the daughter of the original lead guitarist of The Yardbirds, however don’t confuse that fact with the way this sounds. It starts out sounding like a lost 90’s b-side from a Tori Amos album. Track 2 “Someone’s Daughter” has a little bit of a psychedelic feel as an organ fills the space over acoustic guitar. The organ sounds like it’s coming from a vintage Leslie speaker gives the track a retro feel. I would say the voice is pleasant but mixed quite loudly over the track and I suspect listening to it as an mp3 stream does it no favors. This album is very mellow and haunting with dark qualities to it. I can’t help but think of Tori Amos in the vocal inflection on a lot of these tracks but it does switch back and forth from piano to guitar based songs quite often which helps to remove some of the Amos comparisons. This really does help to keep the album diverse and moving. The harmonies are very well written as well, it takes until around the middle of the album to really get into what I feel are some of the better songs of which I would call “Dragonfly” possibly my favorite. Some of the lyrics come off to me as maybe overly British such as “Tea Pot Girl” or “Codeine”. Lyrically, especially on “Tea Pot Girl” I could hear these being sung by a Russell Brand character like Aldous Snow. What’s weird to me is so much of the album has such a serious tone that I’d have to guess that moments of levity were not intended to be that. The rhyme scheme at times feels trite but there are enough enjoyable parts on this album to be able to ignore that. I have to say though, only a person with a British accent could pull this album off. Overall this a good album with a few gems on it.
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- Don Lorenzo