A Girl Called Eddy - Girl Called Eddy

Oooooh, how lush can you get? If you want to wallow in bitter-sweet song stressing, revel in the barbed wire kisses and mink lined lacerations of a frighteningly bright woman, then get your head in here. 'Eddy' or not, Eddy is a real woman and also a cracking songwriter. The music is sublime, the production is superb, why anyone, and I include people who have spent a long time sniffing glue, could buy an allegedly similar female-singer/songwriter 'product' before this, is beyond my understanding, listen to 'Girls Can Really Tear You Up Inside', savagely winsome and helplessly beautiful, fatalistic charm captured, digitally, forever, for you. A complete and completely fine record, 'Heartache' recalls the genius of Karen Carpenter, 'Life Thru the Same Lens' makes Carole King sound like some tawdry tin pan alley cat. A Girl Called Eddy is the album and the artist that redefines the female writer-performer slot. Anti. 2004.

1) Tears All Over Town
2) Kathleen
3) Girls Can Really Tear You Up Inside
4) The Long Goodbye
5) Somebody Hurt You
6) People Used to Dream About the Future
7) Heartache
8) Life Thru the Same Lens
9) Did You See the Moon Tonight
10) Little Bird
11) Golden