Name: It's Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice
Brand: Elle Osborne

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9thcd2

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Release date

2015-11-04

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5060366782649

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Artist

Elle Osborne

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Folk

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Elle's 3rd solo album, 'It's Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice' is the first to feature her own songs. With a nod to her musical roots - and her adopted home of Sussex - the one traditional song on the new album is Come Write Me Down from English folk royalty, the Copper family. At the heart of the album is, of course, Elle's unique vocal sound, which Alex Neilson of Trembling Bells likens to "A cross between Lal Waterson and Nico" - and which gained her a nomination for Spiral Earth's Singer of the Year in 2012. Also featured are her recurrent collaborators Alasdair Roberts on backing vocals / bass, and the aforementioned Alex Neilson, with his Trembling Bells colleague, Mike Hastings, on drums &amp; guitars, respectively. Recorded in 4 sunny days on the south coast of England, by David Lynch (Ed Harcourt). Elle's collaborators, being veterans of inner-city Glasgow's music scene, were none too impressed by the genteel seaside setting, with Mike Hastings quipping, "Eastbourne's so depressing, no wonder they put Beachy Head there!". Out of that atmosphere of conviviality and joy, come 9 songs celebrating survivors and survival: from the opening track I Don't Like Sundays wherein Elle's protagonist beseeches a friend to hold on, as "Sundays always do this to you, darling...", to Toast (The Ballad of Michael 'Mini' Cooper), written in honour of 'Mini' Cooper, a child arsonist and unrecognised genius. Incarcerated from the age of 10 for setting fire to the house where his abusive father was asleep inside, Mini Cooper was the subject of a 1974 documentary made by Franc Roddam, (Quadrophenia). Elle wrote the song after seeing the documentary, and called it Toast, as an honouring of the survival of the protagonist and, as Elle says, "Because toast is what he made of his Dad's house". On a whim, Elle sent her recording of the song to Franc Roddam's production company, and the very next day the director got in touch, to tell her that he felt the song beautiful and that it had him close to tears. It's no surprise, when Elle sings: "When you're silenced with violence, and you're given no chance and no choice, When you're brilliant and bored and you're beaten fire is your vengeance and voice". The album's front cover photo shows Elle's grandmother, Katherine Compton, in a drinking competition at Sidmouth Festival in the 1960s. Still the voice of the outsider, and now with added touches of Americana to her folk heritage, It's Elle's most accessible record to date.

It's Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice

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