Review: Talk about being in it for the long-haul. Jane Weaver lays claim to an on-stage history stretching all the way back to the Britpop era, forming Kill Laura while still at sixth form college and managing to bag some releases on Polydor in the process. That achievement should have told us what was coming, after the Misty Dixon band project, but some might still need telling. A northern English tour de force, as a solo-ist Widnes-born Weaver is the kind of artist that defines enigmatic. Her sound is this varied take on electronic pop with elements, or at least moments, of acoustic bliss or sorrow, alternative rock guts, and psychedelic oddness. Oblique Fantasy, her latest two-tracker, is a case in point. Divided into 'Part 1' and 'Part 2', it may or may not make you think of Long Blondes hitting the studio with Goldfrapp.
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