Connie Converse’s ‘How Sad, How Lovely’ would probably have been 2015’s oddest releases were it not something that had been exhumed from a series of kitchen recordings stretching back over 40 years. Converse you see, disappeared from view in 1974 after becoming completely disillusioned with her music’s lack of commercial success. Fast forward to a new century and while you could hardly call it a newfound success there appears to be a new appetite for Converse’s nod and wink, lo-fi recordings that wear their ragged heart sleeveside. ‘Talkin’ Like You (Two Tall Mountains)’ is just nuts, in a controlled manner that is as it visits upon us the stream of consciousness of a woman scorn and not exactly obsessed with the natural world’s less common mammals. It is funny, not out loud but perhaps more satisfying in that we can share the utter madness of this brilliantly gifted raconteur. KD
Connie Converse – Talkin’ Like You (Two Tall Mountains)
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Year: 2015
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