MOJO – AS DAY FOLLOWS NIGHT – ALBUM REVIEW
“Now relocated to London to launch her career in Europe, Blasko undeniably has the right album to go with. Her voice, pure and understated, is brought to life by the spartan and sensitive production of Bjorn Yttling (of Peter, Bjorn And John fame).
Centrepiece of the album is undoubtedly All I Want, a poetic piece of self-analysis, a lonely melody with a Morricone feel. It sets the reflective and self-critical tone of almost all the songs from the pop of We Won’t Run to the jazz-club cool of Bird On A Wire, cut from the same musical cloth as Fever. There are subtle surprises too: No Turning Back stomps along like something out of a Kurt Weill score, while Over And Over ends in a neat conceit, with the interpolation of a snippet of Talking Heads’ Road To Nowhere. In total, it brings to mind Portishead without the beats, or the original, pop-star Bjork.”
Centrepiece of the album is undoubtedly All I Want, a poetic piece of self-analysis, a lonely melody with a Morricone feel. It sets the reflective and self-critical tone of almost all the songs from the pop of We Won’t Run to the jazz-club cool of Bird On A Wire, cut from the same musical cloth as Fever. There are subtle surprises too: No Turning Back stomps along like something out of a Kurt Weill score, while Over And Over ends in a neat conceit, with the interpolation of a snippet of Talking Heads’ Road To Nowhere. In total, it brings to mind Portishead without the beats, or the original, pop-star Bjork.”
**** David Buckley – MOJO, UK
