Sylvie Simmons - Blue On Blue

Sylvie Simmons
Blue On Blue
(Compass Records)

8/10

By Decibel Report - Aug 9, 2020

Spectrally alluring, Simmons has created an album of songs hauntingly worthy at times of her exemplar Leonard Cohen.

Simple everyday pleasures, that may pass some people by, are magically translated through a micro-lens of observations as Simmons strums a laconic ukelele buoying her languid and insightful rhymes.

Gossamer light musical musings and wistful word play sway back and forth throughout the record's ambient and reflective vibe. With rippling featherlight textures of instrumentation suffused by Simmons' elfin like tones and magical prose.

Recorded with Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb, the shimmering beauty of the songs win out. For playing at any time of the day or night, Sylvie Simmons has captured an ethereal beauty of an album that almost makes time stand still in admiration.