Sultry singer Petra Jean Phillipson. She came, she saw and she delivered. She's got one of those voices which pulls you in with its bluesy charm as her voice rises up and down like ripples; subtle but effective.
I've been listening to the album Notes on Love. The song Cradle of your Smile is my favourite, it's over 9 minutes long and sits nicely at the end of the album as a dark end to the tale. It has a lot of delay/distorted guitar pulsing in and out as she sings lyrics like "I long to be nowhere"
The song Independent Woman is a song that gets into some darker blues sounds with drums and guitars loosely grinding in and out during the breaks in her singing. She crones "independent woman don't need a man" while the song Billy Steaks sees lyrics like "I'll die and I'll cry if you don't come back and marry me soon". You get the idea, so if you like a bit of brooding for the sake of brooding without any blood spilt then this is one for you.
She has done a cover of the Nick Cave song Into My Arms which is a nice interpretation of the song. However the song belongs mostly in the arms of Nick Cave and in this version it lacks the moody emotional depth that Nick conjures but that is something that Nick deals specifically in so it is hardly surprising.
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