Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Patience is a virtue that many are apt to decry in the modern era, so much so that they will dispense what they believe to be sage advice, “Everything moves so quick that you have to rush just to keep up”.
It never used to be this way, but then there never used to be the machine that was cranked up to make a treadmill seem like Sunday morning stroll through the favourite park and taking time to wipe the dirt from your shoes and in the passing company of the seasons and the woman with her own principles, ideas and drive, for she is Nobody’s Girl but her own, and her company is more than enough to be held in rapture.
Following on from their 2018 E.P., Waterline, the Austin, Texas trio encompassing Nobody’s Girl, Rebecca Loebe, Grace Pettis and Bettysoo, have taken their time, spent the intervening years to deal with life in its forms and restrictions, and have, by being patient, produced a self-titled debut that is steeped in a musical essence reminiscent of purity, of self-sacrifice in the name of exploration, and bountiful in its harmonious delivery.
Throughout songs that have a beating heart of beauty within them, the sublime and cool opener of Kansas, Tiger, Beauty Way, What’ll I Do, Birthright, and The Morning After, the trio open their souls to the world with delicate precision and cut through the mess of relationship trials and the downcast of expectations by those who do mot matter, and in the end offer a moment of persistent, endearing solace to the listener that captures the emotional response with ease.
That is not to say that the process was easy, far from it, as with every artist the hard work and demand, the strive for perfection, is deeply engrained in the actions of all who observe and illustrate life in their chosen field, but it is in the essence that the craft and harmony of the threesome that the spirit of luxury becomes apparent; and this is one such luxury of listening we can all afford.
Nobody’s Girl, but all of a sudden, the talented wealth of three women is for all to share. A cracking debut from the Austin trio, engaging, simply captivating.
Ian D. Hall