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5 out of 10
Kinzli Coffman has had quite a life so far. She was adopted by an American family when she was eight years old, moving from an orphanage in South Korea, and she now live sin London playing the jazz circuit and setting up her own Polkadot record label. Her voice is an unusual cross between Katie Melua (Husky and gentle) and Antony Hegarty (Wavering, fragile, high and low at the same time), which makes the tameness of some of the music on 'Going Just To Be Going' a little disappointing. The awkward transition between sombre, folky lament, and kinky commercial jazz forced through by ill fitting, staccato sax lines, on 'Dangerous Love' set the tone for the rest of the record. Kinzli never stays put in any one place or genre and many of the songs feel like token gestures, ticking demographic boxes. The laid back country of the title track and the Latino vibes on 'Quiero Bailar' feel like we're just going round the world for the sake of it; going juts to be going indeed. We get the light folkiness of a summer Boots ad campaign on 'I Wish You Well' and Sheryl Crow-esque rock on 'Casey And Me' and 'Ramble On Lover'. When she does manage to settle on a sound on the final third of the record, and doesn't use her band so gratuitously, Kinzli's pretty folk songs such as 'Music And Mystery' and 'Maybe So, Maybe No' are as good as anyone's. Unsurprisingly for a traveller perhaps, she just took a while to get here. Listen: www.myspace.com/kinzli
Tracklist:
1. Dangerous Love 2. I Wish You Well 3. Quiero Bailar 4. Going Just To Be Going 5. Casey And Me 6. Italy 7. Ramble On Lover 8. Music And Mystery 9. Finding It Hard To Believe 10. Maybe So, Maybe No 11. Lonesome Valley 12. I'll See You This Summer
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