| Something Ilk | - Come Over
- Trade Secret
- Cold Man's Nightmare
- Clean & Neat
- Hammerhead
- Old Man Rain
- Swing It
- Yak Yak
- Go Make It
- Sugar
- Holy Moly
- Save Button
- About Time
- Mine For Keeps
- Out on Regal
- Rating: 7/10
- Reviewer: Chris Long
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Having added her voice to the, well, cast of thousands on Elbow's Cast Of Thousands, Davey is out to make her own mark with the type of idiosyncratic songwriting that is so beloved of those Bury boys. Something Ilk is poppy, dark, epic and intimate, all at once, which how the names of Cerys and PJ get mentioned. On several occasions, particularly during the barbed Trade Secret, Davey sounds unnervingly similar to Matthews' cracked croon, while her love of the off-kilter lyric and unexpected ferocity places her firmly behind Harvey, though she isn't the most obvious bedfellow musically. Her songs are sturdy, rather than dazzling, compositions. Cold Man's Nightmare swings and swirls around, Swing It reaches and swoons, Go Make It sparsely picks at blisters, Save Button whispers a scream, but none of them truly sparkle, and it's that quality that is the only thing lacking from Something Ilk. Only the sumptuous About Time comes close to it, but even that falls just short. Davey is a welcome addition to the raft of singer songwriters currently dragging a guitar around the country. She is one step ahead of them with Something Ilk, the follow up will show whether she can streak ahead or be dragged back into to crowd. |
