Lexie Green
Album: Breathe
Label: Fifty Road
Tracks: 9
Website: http://www.theree-vahs.co.uk

Lexie Green has been likened to both Katie Melua and Tift Merritt, so let me take those reference points, the vocal phrasings that remind me of the former and an attitude and style of the latter.

Lexie Green walks a long way along the acoustic spectrum, taking in pop at one end and blues at the other calling in on Americana, country rock and even folk on that journey, but regardless of the style, there is one thing that links all of the nine tracks on, "Breathe", presence.

There is a confidence in here voice that simply say, "I'm Lexie Green,listen to me" She can sound like an artist that is ripping her guts out because she's hurt, she can sound like an artist swirling around a corn field in a summer dress, simply because the sun is shining and the mood takes her.

This is an album that is impressive not only as a debut, but as an album compared against it's peers with no qualification. In fact the only niggle I have is the use of a slightly suspect storm effect at the start of "Goodbye Herotio", the song writing is of a quality it doesn't need a cheap scene setter and it certainly doesn't need to be used to close the song. It's a niggle that is frustrating because it detracts from an otherwise solid album.

I get the feeling that Lexie Green is a name that you are going to hear more of, so don't bother delaying, leap in at the start.

Neil King