Jane Weaver – Slow motion (Fire Records)

Glorious kosmische pop music with a motorik pulse from the Manchester artist.

There’s a beautiful weave to the synth lines, a carefree quality, a cavort suggesting the tumble of the universe somehow.

But it’s Weaver’s voice that crowns the sound.

Close and persuasive – let’s go outside when it doesn’t feel right / we can disappear – it uses simple elegant phrasing with an endearing down to earth tone which has a hint of world weary about it.

The effect of this simplicity againt the thick swoops of cosmic backing is to make a strange atmosphere. Like the best science fiction, it says otherworldly but still recognisable.

The arrangement is a dream of serene space, inner and outer.

A sumptuous cut.

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