Hermione Hoby 

Lily and Madeleine: Lily and Madeleine – review

The debut album by the Indianapolis sisters is far too sweet and radio-friendly for Hermione Hoby
  
  


Lily and Madeleine are precocious teenage sisters from Indianapolis with voices as blameless as cornflowers. They blend together perfectly on this debut album of melodic acoustic folk, but it's a melding so perfect as to be (churlish though it sounds) pretty boring. Innocence doesn't tend to be interesting and their best songs are the ones hardened with an edge of sorrow, like the careworn Paradise. Less appealing, and sounding ripe for an insufferable commercial, is the tambourine-tapping campfire cheer of Nothing But Time or I've Got Freedom, ditties which amble along vaguely, and against which their two voices sound bloodless rather than delicate.

 

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