Yearning, The – Evening Souvenirs [Audio CD]

Second album from Joe Moore’s project, The Yearning. Made and managed in his own studio, this is a personal universe that is exciting, independent, separate from any other kind of precepts in the music industry; his very own. The delicious arrangements, that romantic halo, and Maddie Dobie’s fascinating voice are still heard on almost the entire album. But while the last album “Dreamboats & Lemonade” looked to sixties pop from the most cheerful girl-group perspective, “Evening Souvenirs” is a slow, deliberate, nocturnal album, with echoes of lounge music and “chanson”, of bossa and chamber pop, with touches of Sarah and El Records’ melancholy, and Burt Bacharach soundtracks. Playing with a considerable number of instruments, and the participation of the Cotsworld Voices choir on many of the songs, we find ourselves with one of those albums that needs to be listened to in semi-darkness, where the notes are bursting to the surface, giving you goose bumps hair by hair. For fans of Dionne Warwick, Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood, Dusty Springfield, Francoise Hardy and Jane Birkin.