'Enchanting' is a word bandied around fairly liberally when it comes to the sometimes insurmountable task of describing a piece of music, but Tallulah Rendall's Lay Me Down presents an eerie beauty that bewitches as its brooding layers unfurl.
Nowhere is this more present than the sultry chorus, which is at once forlorn yet warming. Rendall's tender voice floats over a haunting piano and honey-soaked backing vocals that sound like the chilling sighs of ghosts.
And yet Lay Me Down feels a little bit, well, caberet. It doesn't take an overactive imagination to picture Rendall in the urbane inner-sanctums of a cruise ship, weaving her way seductively through the tables and chairs of the rich and retired, microphone in hand. And her tendency to over-pronounce is a little off-putting at first. See past this however, and Lay Me Down becomes a moment of genuine beauty, as sublime as it sexy.
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