TARA CLERKIN TRIO - "In Spring" LP

Tara Clerkin Trio - In Spring LP (World of Echno, 2021) "...an addictively bent & jazzy flow. strategically (if not sonically) aligned with annette peacock's avant-chanteusery of the early '80s." - Byron Coley "In Spring is the second record by Tara Clerkin Trio, a Bristol-based group who appeared to emerge from below the radar of near-all in early 2020 and in the presence of one of the most captivating records of that year. This latest 23 minute, four song collection, recorded in various stages and locations over the last twelve months, does nothing to detract from those first impressions, refining the woozy and shimmering oddness of their debut into an avant-pop sensibility that is increasingly their own.If the group did arrive fully formed, what that form was did feel supple and hard to grasp. They were, in a sense, essentially new sounding, or at least ghosts between the established lines, and with this new record have doubled-down on their inherently Delphian instinct. At its