Nessi:
Twenty Three Years EP:
Download:
Serve and Volley Records:
Out Now:
★★★★★★☆☆☆☆
These days, most pop singers warble with an 'emotional' affectation which can either delight or irritate the living hell out of you. Depending on the warbling, and occasionally the owner's gender, trilling in such a way can either cause multiple gasms or a desire to crossbow your neighbour's car for kicks. Well, he never liked that BMW 3 Series of his anyway...
Young Nessi sings in a similar way to the likes of Ellie Goulding, Paloma Faith, Eliza Doolittle, Daughter et al but mercifully has written a couple of decent songs to accompany her fashionable delivery. And she hasn't resorted to hollering at the peak of her lungs nor wielded a ukelele, so there's hope.
Twenty Three Years is a pleasant enough dalliance through five well-meaning songs of varying emotional states. Previous single Hush Hush is included and covers the failed relationship side of things while Just a Line revisits old relationships that might well have worked had ships not passed in the night etc etc.
I mentioned Daughter earlier - the current fad of starting songs with sad-face verses before building them up with chiming guitars and stadium-esque eyes-to-the-sky choruses has culminated in me dreading such songs coming on the radio - Daughter's appeal has waned for me. Nessi has utilized this formula on Remember Me which is actually all the more loveable for it - it's a shame it isn't longer and a pity it didn't kick off the EP.
Overall, the Hamburg-raised Berlin-based songwriter has promise in spades but might want to broaden her musical horizons a bit more for that all-important debut-album - You and Alone are merely OK compared to the rest on here.
Twenty Three Years EP:
Download:
Serve and Volley Records:
Out Now:
★★★★★★☆☆☆☆
Young Nessi sings in a similar way to the likes of Ellie Goulding, Paloma Faith, Eliza Doolittle, Daughter et al but mercifully has written a couple of decent songs to accompany her fashionable delivery. And she hasn't resorted to hollering at the peak of her lungs nor wielded a ukelele, so there's hope.
Twenty Three Years is a pleasant enough dalliance through five well-meaning songs of varying emotional states. Previous single Hush Hush is included and covers the failed relationship side of things while Just a Line revisits old relationships that might well have worked had ships not passed in the night etc etc.
I mentioned Daughter earlier - the current fad of starting songs with sad-face verses before building them up with chiming guitars and stadium-esque eyes-to-the-sky choruses has culminated in me dreading such songs coming on the radio - Daughter's appeal has waned for me. Nessi has utilized this formula on Remember Me which is actually all the more loveable for it - it's a shame it isn't longer and a pity it didn't kick off the EP.
Overall, the Hamburg-raised Berlin-based songwriter has promise in spades but might want to broaden her musical horizons a bit more for that all-important debut-album - You and Alone are merely OK compared to the rest on here.