Michele Stodart
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Michele Stodart - Wide-eyed Crossing Album Review
By Andy Peterson in Music Reviews on 04 March 2013
One of the fringe benefits of being in an eternally nerdy group like The Magic Numbers is that their lack of rock n' roll antics means their gelt is spent on something more rational than a Ferrari. In the case of the band, their bassist Michele Stodart co-founded with her brother Romeo and fellow sibling duo Angela and Sean Gannon their professional loot has been wisely invested in the building of a recording studio, a hideaway in which her début solo album Wide-Eyed Crossing was recorded.
As you may have guessed, this is life through the kind of personal, painful lens which we no longer allow celebrities to have without usually insisting they share every visceral detail of it; that Wide Eyed Crossing is so intimate speaks volumes for an artist who also played every note of the record. At its most affecting - on the frankly lovely and Magic Numbers-esque 'My Baby, My Sweet' - there is a feeling of reading someone else's love letters, at once uncomfortably voyeuristic but also tinged with bystander romance.
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