Lisa Miller
Morning In The Bowl Of Night
11 Track, LP (2007, Inertia)
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Lisa Miller dedicates her fourth album to her late mother, and in lines like “Bottle up my tears/And feed the flowers that remind me of you”, or the more direct “Oh how we boxed it all up and swept it away/Forty years of memories in just five days”, we sense her grief and loss. This is a poignant, beautiful album, almost unbearably lovely in places, but underpinned with a steady resolve, revealing the sure hand of a songwriter who has something to say and the finely tuned tools with which to express it in a gently poetic, moving fashion.
At times it can feel overpoweringly sweet – on ‘Snowman’ Miller’s sugary, sometimes little-girlish vocal combined with producer/musician Shane O’Mara’s mandolin and glockenspiel is pretty without respite. But elsewhere, on ‘Upside’ and ‘Such a Find’, the lightness is dreamy and lush, while on the seven minute ‘Love Will Carry You’ the band gets a bit of a groove on, jamming it out, and the toughness next to the sweetness really hits the spot. For the most part, this is a calmly reflective, feminine album, rather than one about anguish. Miller’s emotional tide slowly seeps in, leaving a warm, sepia-tinged impression.
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