lovely tunes by Lenka

 

Just by the looks of this album cover, I knew I'd like the music inside.  And the video of her first release, The Show is just as lovely.  Also dig this song, Don't Let Me Fall.

A review reads, "Although Lenka's debut is rife with broken romances, self-loathing, difficult relationships and long distance longing, it is nevertheless uplifting. Channeling our long-repressed terrors her music evokes primal emotions, unblemished by pretense or cynicism – and unashamed of cracking a smile occasionally.

In characteristic Lenka fashion, lead single "The Show" takes a dour premise – that life is a show, and sometimes a pretty bad one at that – and delivers it with unexpected aplomb, erupting into a bold, brassy closing refrain of "I want my money back!" Lenka's fresh sensibility extends to every element of her music, as the whimsical, paper art, stop-motion animated videos she creates with fellow Aussie James Gulliver Hancock, a visual artist, demonstrate. "We're sort of an art duo. I'm really into craft styles, things looking a bit badly done and childlike on purpose – rather in the vein of Michel Gondry," she says. Others may struggle to get in touch with their inner child; Lenka never lost hers." –Dennis Scanland

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