Thea Gilmore - Holding Your Hand

I've been an admirer of Ms Gilmore's for the best of part of a decade now. Since Uncut Magazine hailed her as the "female Elvis Costello", bit of a back handed compliment that, for her 2000 album, The Lipstick Conspiracies. While she's never received the acclaim she deserves, it's good to know that she's still recording albums, touring and making an a living from music. This is a particular song is just beautiful and once again a great example of how with just a little guitar, the right voice and the right words you can craft something very affecting. The lyrics also nicely straddle the line between stalking and loving, which is something I'm generally a fan of. The way Ms Gilmore sings here it's beautiful, but with a gruffer male voice, a bit more beef behind the melody it could easily become something quite creepy. Sign of good lyric writing that.