Angels Women...Russian Red

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Russian Red is a singer from Spain whose latest album is, so far, one of the best this year. Can't find a street date, but Eureka Records will be releasing it. There are many brilliant songs on it, so if you can find it you definitely should buy it. Below is one of my favourites, They Don't Believe...

Russian Red-I Love Your Glasses (2008)

You Should Know

It's only a matter of time before you'll be hearing Russian Red songs on iPod and Yaris commercials. Russian Red is the moniker for Lourdes Hernandez, a Spanish avant-garde folk songstress that wisely chooses to sing in English. Vocally, Hernandez exhibits a similar sort of quirkiness to fellow female folkies Joanna Newsome and Marissa Nadler. Regarded as one of the most promising acts in Madrid, Hernandez was quickly scooped up by local Eureka Records and in April she released her debut album, I Love Your Glasses. While she's proud of her Madrid roots, you'd be hard-pressed to detect any inkling of an accent in Hernandez' songs. On the opening "Cigarettes," Hernandez muses on the nature of regret, delivering the refrain: "All the cigarettes that I have never smothered/ And all the letters that I have never sent." I Love Your Glasses is full of lyrical maturity you wouldn't expect from a 22-year old student, and Hernandez' vocals continually display both impressive range and real emotional weight. With songs like this, don't expect Russian Red to toil in relative obscurity much longer.

"I Love, love...All About Russian Red."

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