Ally Carnwath 

Harvest of Gold review – Gossling’s pretty electropop opts to remain in the background

Gossling's music works well in the background of TV dramas. It's less engaging without the visual accompaniment, writes Ally Carnwath
  
  


You may have heard Gossling's voice drifting in the background of various US TV dramas; she makes electropop that gestures prettily at indeterminate emotions. Her debut is easy on the ear but fails to leave a strong impression; her mildly idiosyncratic vocals are neither engaging nor irritating but summon the faint otherworldliness of fairy lights strung across a suburban garden. There are attempts at something more substantial but Vanish, a well-intentioned song for a murder victim, feels gauche. And Songs of Summer, a duet of doomed romance with fellow Australian Alex Burnett, makes them sound considerably less doomed than other ill-starred musical couples.

 

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