I Love You, Go Easy
Musically, Davon Sproule has shifted gradually away from the emotional rawness of early albums like 2001′s Long Sleeve Story, settling on immaculately crafted, personal songwriting that favours subtle experimentation and imagination over chorus-heavy bluster. I Love You, Go Easy continues the trend, stuffed to the gills with styles and techniques but put together skilfully enough that it rarely grates. The melancholic piano of the title-track skips, without a beat, into the smoky lounge funk of The Unmarked Animals, which in turn slips into sedate guitar musings on Monk / Monkey. Jazz, folk, blues and country pass through Sproule’s warm lens, all united by the singer’s intimate approach and pastoral outlook. As well as effortlessly inhabiting her flock of genre.