(AU magazine May 2008)
(INSTANT KARMA)
Kicking in like it's 1987, 'Metropolitan' is a notable record indeed. Hailing from Perth in Scotland, Helicopter Girl aka Jackie Joyce is channeling Ertha Kitt over a weird mix of ambient dub - as on opener Giants Building Giants - and 1980s dance - as on Blink.
HG's cosmopolitan roots - she's half Ghanaian - make her style entirely impossible to classify, so what's left is a list of influences. You name a unique, imaginative solo female artist and HG's channeling her here, with grace on 'Ballerina', with style on 'Ghosts In The Machine' and with nothing but decorum throughout. But its very ingenuity cannot cover up the one fatal flaw here - it's all a bit of a hotchpotch.
Thursday 1 May 2008
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