The Webb Sisters - Daylight Crossing

Kent sisters Hattie and Charley Webb (no relation to The Webb Brothers)are the latest record industry attempt to score big with that eminently forgettable brand of classical-meets-pop earnest balladry. To take nothing away from the (coincidentally beautiful) sisters themselves, who can, admittedly, both sing and proclaim loudly to have come from a long musical heritage (their father was a drummer, apparently), 'Daylight Crossing' is nevertheless so sanitised and inoffensive that its only humane use is presumably on-hold music for call centres. Whether or not The Webb Sisters are a complete label creation, the painfully clichéd lyrics ("…reflection of the midnight sky softly whispers your name…"), meaningless splashes of piano and strings, and confused tinkerings with folk guitar and processed beat-tracks makes for decidedly dull listening, lacking any shred of vitality, originality or attitude. [Nick Mitchell]