An Australia native who has plenty of musical experience, Elena Dakota cut her teeth in bands like Hummingbird, Introduction!, Rex Wonderful and the Silk Sheets and Maraby Band. She also records by herself under the electro-pop alias Allume. Under her own name, Dakota pens lo-fi, folk friendly songs, and this second album of these ideas includes eight selections that are dedicated to her father.<\/p>\n
\u201cLavender\u201d starts the listen with Dakota\u2019s warm acoustic guitar and very poetic singing that flows with a bare folk appeal. \u201cPlasticine, As I Do The Sky\u201d follows, and with help from Sam Newman on trombone and vocals for the uniquely soulful and emotive delivery.<\/p>\n
Landing at the halfway point, \u201cWoman In The Air\u201d recruits Luke Kenny\u2019s vocals, bass and percussion skills for the rhythmic and hushed beauty, while \u201cFire Bird\u201d is a raw, sparse but impactful moment of dreamy guitar and Dakota\u2019s gorgeous pipes that shows much range. \u201cSlow As Hell,\u201d the best of the best, then features Lyndon Blue\u2019s stirring violin that blends well with the mesmerizing guitar and hazy singing.<\/p>\n
\u201cRice Noodles\u201d arrives near the end, and is a very gentle, minimal display of an absorbing atmosphere, and \u201cLady Godiva (There Is No Gun)\u201d exits with one of the fuller selections that showcases Bill Christensen\u2019s sax and flute amid the hypnotic keys and light percussion.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not hard to think of names like Norah Jones, Blaze Foley or Laura Marling when listening to River Record<\/i>, as Dakota’s rich, harmonic vocals and strong attention to timbre creates a highly memorable version of chamber folk, indie-folk and even slo-core moments. Her imagery is quite animated, and the sonic mood is sincere, relatable and possesses the ability to quite possibly make her your new favorite singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10876],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-46716","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-elena-dakota","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46716"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}