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EWAH & The Vision of Paradise – Everything Fades to Blue

A review from my quarterly Guardian column 'Music You Missed', April 2017


Tasmanian singer and songwriter EWAH (Emma Waters) took four years to make this album with her band. Yet her vision didn’t dim on any of its eight noir-rock tracks. Every aspect coheres into a whole – from the dusky cover art of clouds and mountains to the frontier sprawl of tremolo-heavy guitars and crescendos swelled by synthesiser. Songs brood and build into lush, long outros, some of them satisfyingly loud.

Midway through comes Vision Of Paradise – the summit of this record’s romanticism. “I had a vision of paradise/and it looked like you,” Waters sings, her voice all big-hair 80s diva; her candour drawing you close. Like Paradise Motel or Mazzy Star, this is romance that is bruised, blue and too heart-on-sleeve for a group setting. Enjoy it alone where you can pull it tight.

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My name is Kate Hennessy. I am a freelance arts and travel writer and music critic. I contribute to Guardian Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age, The Saturday Paper, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Wire (UK), NME and more.

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