Keepers of country’s tragi-comic flame will clasp Lindi firmly to their bosoms.
It’s a brave woman who burdens her breakthrough album with a track called I’m No Elvis Presley. Such a move conjures up that period in the mid-1990s when a past-their-best Depeche Mode released singles called It’s No Good and Useless. The reviews wrote themselves.
Not that Lindi Ortega is useless, but this is a curious release from Last Gang, the Canadian label who previously introduced us to uncompromising electro-rock outfits like Death from Above 1979 and Crystal Castles. Ortega, from Toronto, is as trad-country as they come, a rootin’, tootin’ chorus-slinger in the Dolly mould (musically at least).
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Bron: BBC Music