Tracklisting: 1. This Love 2. My Baby 3. Winter On The Weekend 4. The Memory Machine 5. Catastrophe 6. Maybe 7. Lights Inside This Dream 8. What's Wrong With Me? 9. Horse With The Wings 10. Where Does The Love Go?
Record Company: Picture Show Records
Release Date: Monday 29th November 2010

 
Julia Stone - My Baby

This Love is first up and straight away it’s the fragile folk sound that stands out. At first This Love doesn’t sound like much of a departure from the sibling’s style but there is definitely something enchanting about this track. My Baby is another mellow ballad with Julia Stone’s beautiful voice guiding you through the motions. Lyrically we are still in failed relationship territory.

For the really depressing ones on the album there’s Winter On The Weekend and we aren’t kidding you should keep those tissues handy! As it stands the track is about a dog (we’ve all been there ladies) but it’s really the dramatic music that gives this track its dramatic edge.

The title track is another beautifully crafted acoustic ballad. The lyrics on The Memory Machine are quite exceptional but it’s the simplicity of the song that wins you over. Lights Inside This Dream another heartbreakingly beautiful ballad with some beautiful blues undertones that give the track a much needed lift.

Catastrophe brings a little bit of life to the album with its upbeat tempo. Don’t be fooled though this is still Julia Stone and the lyrics will be bleak even with trumpets in the background. What’s Wrong With Me? Is much more Angus and Julia Stone and sort of makes us happy to find something more familiar on the album.

And then comes the gem of the album and it seems quite obvious that Stone saved the best for last with Where Does The Love Go? Banjos seem to be in fashion lately and only rightly so as they seem to bring a smile to everyone’s face. Julia Stone’s girlish voice only adds to the songs fragility and makes this by far our favourite.

Julia Stone has enjoyed great success with her brother and isn’t about to find out what the opposite feels like. The Memory Machine is another great collection of songs with Julia Stone’s very own mark. It’s true that it isn’t a big departure from what we know of her collaborations but it is nevertheless a great album to fall in love with.