June Babies

June Babies
Studio album by Rebecca Hollweg
Released 9 October 2001
Genre singer-songwriter
Length 41:46
Label Emu Records
Producer Andy Hamill
Rebecca Hollweg chronology
The Demos (1999 demo album) June Babies
(2001)		 Orange Roses (2008)

June Babies, the first album by English singer-songwriter Rebecca Hollweg, was released on 9 October 2001 on Emu Records.[1] Consisting of melodic pop songs, it featured string arrangements by Chris Bowden and a guest appearance by Jeb Loy Nichols. It was critically acclaimed in the British national and music press and was played on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show. The title track was used in a BBC television programme about women runners.[2][3]

Production and launch

The album was produced and recorded by Andy Hamill in London.

Reception

Dan Cairns, writing in the Culture section of The Sunday Times, praised "the title track’s ode to friendship and late developers, the bare-bones upcloseness of Where Are You Going? and the wryly observational Is It Me You’re Looking For?" and said: "there is something of [Joni] Mitchell in her soaring vocal lines and [Suzanne] Vega in her confessional ones, though there are unexpected echoes, too, of Marianne Faithfull at her throatiest".[4]

Rob Beattie in Q magazine described her as a "gifted tunesmith, happy to wrangle words into memorable phrases ('You cannot see these bruises/They are inside my head')" and praised "Weather Song, with its infectious chorus, and the beautiful, bouncing Warhol and Williams".[5]

Songs from the album were played on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show. The title track was used in a BBC television programme about women runners.[2][3]

Track listing

  1. "June Babies" (3:14)
  2. "Getting On" (3:35)
  3. "Sorry" (2:44)
  4. "Warhol & Williams/Playout" (4:27)
  5. "Is It Me You're Looking For?" (3:48)
  6. "Long Lie" (3:14)
  7. "Dancing in the Kitchen" (3:04)
  8. "Weather Song" (2:19)
  9. "Have You Heard the Birds Sing in the Night?" (3:30)
  10. "Take Me Away" (3:38)
  11. "Where Are You Going?" (3:31)
  12. "Existential" (3:39)

Running time: 41:46

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Rebecca Hollweg". Discogs. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Garforth Arts Festival 2008: Rebecca Hollweg to provide dash of musical class". Yorkshire Evening Post. 21 July 2008. Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Rebecca Hollweg & Edwina Hayes live at THE HALO" (Press release). www.kentfolk.com. 9 May 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Cairns, Dan (6 January 2002). "On record – The week's essential new releases – Pop". The Sunday Times. London.
  5. ↑ Beattie, Rob (April 2002). "Otherworldly debut from West Country songwriter". Q (magazine).

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