Charlotte Martin

Martin's literate, tensile music is comparable to a bougainvillea plant: it looks like it's all tendrils and flowers, but when you get closer you see it's actually extremely tenacious and quite thorny. Songs like "Steel" and "Every Time It Rains" throb with cleverly disguised tension in a way that recalls Kate Bush.

Charlotte Martin says she's a Goth, but listening to her tap away at the high keys of her
piano, it's difficult to think of her as anything but angelic. A classically trained opera singer,
Martin has expanded her songwriting a lot more on this release than on her previous ones,
and some of that Goth side even comes across in the muted tribal beats of "Limits of Our
Love." Most of the songs meander around somewhat, focusing at all times on her... More >