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Acoustic folk, indie, singer-songwriter, London.

Melanie Crew and Ross Palmer released their second album, Some Other Stories, in December 2025. Drawing on influences from Fairport Convention to Elliott Smith, it pushes their work into new musical and thematic territory. 
Many of these songs ask direct questions in a musing fashion. One of them, ‘Storm Rolling Through’, is the album’s centrepiece, a metaphor of heartbreak full of dams and defences breached in the face of a flood. ‘Oh My Darling’ leaves its own killer question, “will you come along?”, to its final line, after Palmer spends four verses remarking on the passing of time and whether there are “strings left untied…knots left undone”. ‘Our Captain Cried All Hands’ is a traditional ballad which is given a folky feel by the duo. It takes the form of a farewell to a lady that leads to “briny tears”, and it contains syncopated lines and an uneven 7/4 time signature. There is a fiddle solo from Basia Bartz and a final chorus featuring, appropriately for the song’s title, members of Palmer’s old band Great Days of Sail. The Palmer-written waltz ‘Give a Little More’ closes the set with some advice (“you can’t keep on taking without putting in”) that he laments is nonetheless “unheeded”.

"A quiet, understated gem. An intimate unaffected magic that’s rare and precious”.

Tracks:
01 - Winning Ticket
02 - Take a Picture
03 - Close the Book
04 - Our Captain Cried All Hands
05 - Blindly Through the World
06 - Look Back On Before
07 - Storm Rolling Through
08 - Unspoken
09 - Oh My Darling
10 - Count Down the Days
11 - Making Lists
12 - Give a Little More

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen. Oh ja, MP3 doe ik niet aan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRtFJTdxrj8&t=5s