| Pop CD of the Week - Hello Love Mark Edwards - Timesonline.co.uk If you knew that a band had used a patchwork quilt for the cover of their new album, you might expect the result to be a mass of wildly different colours. Not The Be Good Tanyas, though. On the front of Hello Love is a collection of blues, with the merest hint of variation visible at the edges - details I wouldn't bother you with if the colour scheme didn't provide a workable metaphor for the album itself. more top Hello Love (4 stars) Pete Paphides - Timesonline.co.uk They're usually found in the folk section but the genre doesn't do justice to this Vancouver female trio's reconfiguration of their influences. Hello Love yields covers from Prince's When Doves Cry to Neil Young's For the Turnstiles and a cracking version of Sean Hayes's A Thousand Tiny Pieces. more top Hello Love (3 1/2 stars) Chris Sahl - Prefixmag.com The Be Good Tanyas' original compositions, which make up more than half of Hello Love, hold their own seamlessly among the rearranged traditional and cover songs, but it's perhaps the album's final (hidden) track that best shows the scope of the players' talent. How a cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry" played and sung by three women on upright bass, acoustic guitar and banjo can prove not only the furthest thing from novelty more like one of the most accomplished, elegant and imaginative covers of the year is as much a marvel as the album itself. more top Hello Love by The Be Good Tanyas Nuria Stylianou - | |
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