Hannah Rodriguez - Not Ideal EP
Release Date: Out Now
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| Hannah Rodriguez - Not Ideal EP |
Release Date: Out Now
I honestly don’t know what I
expected from the debut four track EP produced by recent London immigrant
Hannah Rodriguez but it certainly wasn’t this. To be clear, when I say
immigrant, Rodriguez has come from the Lake District before any Daily Mail
readers burst a blood vessel (also, if you are a Daily Mail reader, please jog
on). The EP opens with a four count and then straight in to ‘My Mate Says’ that
sounds like Amy Winehouse singing with Morcheeba while Sneaker Pimps get
experimental on production duties. The soft, warm keys and Rodriguez’s dusky
tones are counterbalanced by moody, soulful horns and that clicking beat that
is as lean as can be. On ‘11th Hour’, we’re transported to the back
of a black cab on its way home with Rodriguez sleepily singing her way to the
end of the day which puts you in a dream-like state with a vibe that sits on
the fence between soul and trip-hop.
There’s some scratchy recording
of a child talking at the start of ‘Not Ideal’ before we settle in to a slow,
deep groove that the likes of Joss Stone and Corrine Bailey-Rae would happily
get down and dirty in. Rodriquez’s voice has that wonderful quality of being
both sultry and seductive to suit those late-night moods but also light, breezy
and warm to suit a summer’s afternoon spent in the garden with old records
drifting out from the house. The closing track on the EP is ‘Croissants &
Coffee’ which takes things in a Jazz direction as that delicately placed guitar
is enveloped by Rodriguez’s sumptuous voice like butter melting in to the holes
on a warm crumpet. A gorgeous and versatile voice used expertly, then. The Lake
District might just want this lady back.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/HannahRodriguezMusic/