There’s a yearning seduction and a darkening desire clipped in deepening devilment that ripples with brooding beauty and tender torture from the shimmering depths of Lois Winstone’s scarred and sultry soulful sear, all at once purring, powerful and punishing it exacts upon the would be viewer a caressing cruelty that spell binds and crushes like no other as she stalks, stirs and rises prey like surveying a noir scalped aural landscape that echoes and evolves to a mesmerising and majestic musical mirage that blends the shadow lined romance of Portishead at the height of their powers and the smoked torch lit smoulder of musetta at their most mercurial. the band – incidentally – are called Lois and the Love and the single in question titled ’Dark Serenade’ is backed by ’Rabbit Hole’ a totally differing beast it should be said, is a psychotically snarling slice of skinny hip rock a boogie fleshed out by some seriously slinky panic attack vocal howls and yelps which all said to these ears had us recalling a particularly dirty and scuzzed out early incarnation of the curve. Quite frankly you want it and who’d blame you.
