Shirley Lee - Shirley Lee

Album Review by Ewen Millar | 05 Feb 2009
Album title: Shirley Lee
Artist: Shirley Lee
Label: Missing Page
Release date: 16 Feb

For better or worse, some musicians exist as timewarps, sucking you into a vortex of nostalgia and déjà-vu. Shirley Lee, as the ex-frontman for Spearmint (the Next Big Thing from London about a decade ago), skirts dangerously close to being an embalmed fossil from the era of Cool Britannia. He's now all 'grown up' describing Sunday mornings spent having coffee in some nice café in London while suffering a red wine hangover from the dinner party the night before. Acoustic platitudes detailing the inner anguish of being a cultured bohemian Londoner sit alongside melancholy musings on the minor details of love, and it's all very Richard Curtis. If you've spent your time, in years gone by, flitting between Camden and Highgate, then this might provide a snapshot of the highs and lows of your life: if you live north of London, then this will leave you out in the cold. [Ewen Millar]

http://www.shirleylee.co.uk