Just because she finally decided to release her first album Karen Elson won’t end her modelling career. You can’t dissimulate that her husband Jack White (yes, the one from the White Stripes) had an influence on her decision to record the songs she has been working in her spare time during the last years. But the result is a coherent folk album with enough pop appeal to be catchy, enough spookiness to be exciting and no traces of the White Stripes what so ever. The atmosphere of the album ranges from melancholic (“Lunasa”) to tragic (“Mouths to Feed”) and some songs even manage to combine both moods, like my favourite “The Truth is in the Dirt”.

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