SNAP OF THE DAY BY KELLY CHAPPEL: TALLULAH RENDALL
A real independent spirit this one, in that she has set up her own label, Transducer Records, to avoid the supposed evils of a major record companies and their often too controlling interest in how they believe an artist should sound. She’s doing pretty well with her solo venture too, having already coerced Marius de Vries (Bjork and Massive Attack) on board to act as Executive Producer on her forthcoming album, ‘Libellus’, which will be a pretty special affair if the songs on her MySpace are any indication. Take ‘Black Seagull’, for example, an irresistible offering that touches on contemporary jazz, the stirring ballads of Edith Piaf and, towards the end of the song, an unexpected bombast of fuzzy, feedback-fuelled guitars that would have Kevin Shields standing proud. ‘Wake Up’ is a more sedate affair that, without meaning any disservice, could quite happily sit on one of those Radio 2 acoustic compilations that are mostly packed full of derivative nonsense, though Rendall would certainly be distinguishable from the more common singer-songwriter pap. Her MySpace, link below, has both songs streaming now.