Carol Hodge – Effortless Insecurity

When starting to write this piece on the new album by Carol Hodge, it occurred to me after reading the PR, that I couldn’t even come close to writing a better description, so I’m not gonna try…… “Carol Hodge is a seven-fingered, piano-pounding, Yorkshire-dwelling Singer-Songwriter. Think Linda Ronstadt meets Chelsea Wolfe, but with fewer digits and a continuous existential crisis, sandwiched between bitter irony and relentless optimism. You won’t know whether to laugh or cry, but will definitely feel something.”  This is Carol’s fifth studio album, and if your not familiar with the name, then just think back to the last time you heard Crass live over the past few years, yes she is the amazing vocal wonder backing Steve Ignorant up. Having listened to at least the last two be...

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