“With just eleven songs on Lucky One, her stunning debut album, Auckland’s Miriam Clancy has immediately claimed her place in the long Kiwi tradition of great singer-songwriters.
Inspired by the likes of Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Bob Seger and Sheryl Crow, this feisty young woman has delivered an album that impresses for its lyrical maturity, sophisticated songcraft, her commanding and distinctive voice, and the raw emotions on display.
Lucky One springs out of the speakers on catchy pop-rock tracks such as Don’t Let It Get You Down, seduces with melodic subtlety on heartfelt ballads like Giving Up the Day and Dry Your Eyes, and reaches for those deep unspoken parts of the soul with songs of sorrow and loss like the very personal And So It Begins and The Game.
Lucky One is an album of texture and nuance, of memorable lyrics, and melodies which grab on the first hearing. Just great songs.
If intelligent singer-songwriters and Americana alt.country artists just off the edge of the mainstream appeal to you, then you’ll need no further invitation to listen up to Miriam Clancy.
She has stories to tell and a passionate voice full of emotional honesty.
It has been a long journey, but Miriam Clancy has arrived.”
Lucky One (Desert Road Records) ***** (5 Stars) – Graham Reid
“It could almost be a sin to love Miriam Clancy’s pain if it wasn’t so cathartic. But on a debut album that puts the person back into personal, songs like “The Day The Earth Stood Still”, “The Game” and “And So It Begins” fall apart and expose frailties and wounds in such a beautifully beguiling, bare to the bones way, you can’t help yourself for wanting her to hurt some more. An album to lose and find yourself in”.
Mike Alexander, Sunday Star Times, August 6, 2006.
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