- Music
- 18 Apr 11
Indie Folk at its most minimal
This is the debut album from Norabelle, an acoustic male indie folk duo from Louth. For NB, simplicity is key, their tender harmonies icing a cake of delicate acoustic guitar, piano, cello and percussion. There’s a beauty to ‘Gregarious Bird’ and ‘Wren’ that is truly breathtaking, the latter evoking David Kitt at his most sensitive. ‘Unfurl’ has a brittle quality, and there’s a quaint fragility to ‘Sleeping’, its plaintive cello and sublime voices making you want to tread softly across the room. ‘Road Maps’ gets slightly jaunty, a momentary aberration before the downbeat ‘Low Of Your Neck’, which mixes trademark Norabelle harmonies with discordant strings, repeated towards the end à la Reich or Neiman. Definitely a case of a little going all the way.