Reviews

Reviews

Live, The Liggers Tavern, Birmingham, 19/11/04
Jon Higton.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/music/2004/11/contact/index.shtml

"Contact are an acoustic duo with a strong collection of songs well suited to small venues such as this. Their songs are built around fragile melodies and hushed vocals, with some classic pop sensibilities thrown in for good measure. Featuring solitary acoustic guitar and bass their performance has echoes of classic folk, particularly in the ethereal voice of singer Zoë.

Stripped of any backing and in such an intimate setting, the strength of the songs is really allowed to shine through. Ranging from atmospheric and melancholy, ‘Please Don’t’, to wide-eyed and faintly psychedelic, ‘Smile in the Dark’ they possess a melodic gift that adds just enough light to the occasionally dark lyrics. This is a set that showcases a collection of bittersweet folk-pop gems, delivered with subtlety and assurance.

It might be argued that the addition of a band would be the next logical step for Contact to expand their live sound. However judging by tonight’s show this would be missing the point slightly, the fact is that these songs stand up in their most skeletal form as a concise expression of a mature song writing talent."

'Find A New Home' CD review – Xposed Magazine, November 2004

"Take annoying female vocalists Sinead O’Connor, Dido and that whingeing woman from The Cranberries, knock some sense into them and you might just get something close-ish to the sound of Contact.

The double-layered vocals of Zoë Titchener takes you on a drifting trip through 6 tracks. Before you know you’ve arrived, you’ve been and gone ably complemented by the incomparable guitar work of Mike Weston.

Gently melodic, this album shows that the pair could go as far into the heavens as they wanted to."

'Find A New Home' CD review – NME, 30/04/2005

"An acoustic duo with a strong collection of songs built around fragile melodies and hushed vocals, with some classic pop sensibilities thrown in for good measure... With echoes of a female-fronted Snow Patrol or Athlete."

Live, The B91 Music Festival, 14/08/05
Tom Edwards.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2005/08/17/b91_festival_music_feature.shtml

"Soft, breathy vocals as light as a feather and delicate ‘Going To California’ Zepplin-esque guitar work. This is lovely, mellow stuff."

A poem for Contact. Elizabeth Pile (2001).

Nature's Loving Music

Nature's hot tongue
is whispering musically,
like the silky sway
of a woman's hips.

Lavender generations, protruding
through vibrant pink-tinged petalled species.
A luscious fragrance in creativity,
in humid hues of ecstasy.

Sometimes nature's sweetest voices
drip gentle solf love like tree's husshh,
while thick rain drops pass you
blurring, seepering into nature's mellow dew.

A poem for Contact. Clayton Tucker (2003).

Market Tavern

Ever since I first met them
They’ve meant a lot to me
Physically, emotionally and lyrically

Knowing them from an early age
Brings the goodness out of me.
All the gigs I’ve been to
And all the chats we’ve had
About life, TV, shite and stuff
We listened to each other both.

The jazzy way they come across
Swaying trees in a breeze.
Rectifies their love for it
In a cool and harmless way.

Whether on their own or together as one
Music is their game
Folk excels beyond its realm
Of realistic psalm.

A poem for Contact. Elizabeth Pile (2005).

Contact Me!

Contact me!
Fill me with glee.
Give me some sounds
I can almost see,
through my Inner-Eye
we'll surge to the sky
reaching for melodies
that flutter by...
But the deeper chords
that reach in our hearts
pick out the beginnings
of where the pain starts.
The Lyrics pin-prick -
ney - score away
Musical Memories
for us to replay.

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