Sarah Class : 'A New Dawn'
Released: Out Now!
You won’t have heard of Sarah Class, unless you often turn your dial to Classical FM possibly (that’s right, dial). She’s a Classical Brit Award and Emmy nominated classical musician and composer apparently. I assume that Brit matters more than the mainstream one, it would have to go some to mean less after all. She’s now turned her hand to folk-y pop with new EP ‘A New Dawn’.
It opens up in jovial enough fashion but Make Me Free sounds a bit too soaked in sugar. Its production is against the grain of what we’d hope for or want, it isn’t organic or lo-fi sounding, instead it’s squeaky clean and preened. Vocally, as you’d expect, it’s note perfect and there’s no doubting her song-writing ability, just how it comes across.
The darker moments like Darkness In My Heart are nowhere near dark enough. A light shadow seems just about appropriate description. But again it feels like the production is letting it down, it feels flat and lifeless. The sea is a big influence to her songs, and you can’t half tell. Every soft acoustic meanders behind lines about the shore and such, which is better than the typical sappy love-song at least.
She probably knows her audience, and Late night Radio 2 and it’s listeners will lap it up, but one image sticks while listening. Seats at a gig. It’s that sort of music, and it’s all a bit too much for me.
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