Blue Roses - Does Anyone Love Me?
From behind the nom-de-folk Blue Roses, Shipley’s Laura Groves creates folk songs that mix Kate Bush at her most reflective, with the kind of beautifully fingerpicked guitar and gentle piano that Joni Mitchell may as well have trademarked.
While last year’s pseudonymous folk hero Bon Iver captured his lovelorn songs in a snowbound cabin in Wisconsin, Groves had to make do with a mixture of living rooms, college classrooms, churches and on one occasion a piano shop after hours, to record her debut record, also called Blue Roses.
Does Anyone Love Me? showcases her soaring vocals that multiply to form a harmonising choir floating over deftly picked guitar and subtle hints of harp. It’s as tender as a fresh bruise, with lyrics that sound mysterious but strangely familiar. Meanwhile the plaintive I Wish I with its slicing violins sounds like six wonderful undiscovered minutes from Joni Mitchell’s Ladies Of The Canyon.
Blue Roses’s eponymous debut is out in April.
[You can hear Does Anyone Love Me? here]
Mic Wright
3:08 PM | 27/01/2009
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Is this the Blue Roses that supported Joan as Policewoman at Manchester Academy on Dec 14th last year?
Posted by Peter Vos at 9:23 PM | 13/02/2009 | Report Abuse
They sounds like a dream's music. Magical
I saw them last night, at Mika's show and they're very talented.
I love them
Posted by Juan at 12:36 PM | 09/06/2009 | Report Abuse
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