In looking back over my favourite records of recent times, an understated beauty by Kat Flint comes immediately to mind. The Secret Boys' Club EP of 2006 was a creation of humble grace, a slow-burning collection of downbeat dreaming and broadly shimmering gems that promised and delivered the world.
It's taken a long time for Flint's follow up release, but Go Faster Stripes is another such beauty from her humble archive. Handclaps shoot in festive splendour, Flint's effortlessly emotional voice trickles melancholic profundity while the piano bleeds tumbling melodies, and the sumptuous folk-Pop wave passes like a tender kiss.
While other singer/songwriters follow well-worn paths to mundane places, Flint is open to the world, spinning musical wonder like a modern saint. To listen is to fall in love.
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