Here’s a review of Pulse from September’s UNCUT Magazine:
PULSE
ONE LITTLE INDIAN
****
Chilling beauty from former Goya Dress vocalist
Where Williamson’s previous work has tended towards crafted alt.rock with a serrated edge, the Shetlander’s collaboration with sometime Eno sidekick Leo Abrahams inhabits altogether sparser terrain. Dropping the temperature by several degrees and placing her (many) voices front and centre, Williamson makes inventive use of rhythm and space. The ominous “Dance” fuses the electronic and the elemental, while “Paperbacks” sounds like the Blue Nile at their most skeletal backing Joni before the cigarettes took hold. Like the rest of this bold album, it’s as beautiful as it is unsettling.
Graeme Thomson
