If, as Sartre asserted, Hell is other people, then Heaven could well be other people’s music. Rosalie Cunningham’s second solo album since the demise of her band Purson in 2017 basks in divine nostalgia as she exploits her amazingly fertile imagination to craft another exceptionally diverse and quirky release.
Two Piece Puzzle sees the hugely talented multi-instrumentalist seemingly continuing her mission to resurrect the 70s single-handedly: the opening instrumental’s main refrain could easily have fitted on an early Uriah Heep LR Catchy melodies, clever lyricism and vaudevillian flourishes abound, exemplified by numbers like the hauntingly prog The Liner Notes.
Rosalie manages once again to create perfection in every style she weaves into her compositions, be it symphonic, jazz, honky-tonk, and even a Beatles-like raga, like in Tristitia Amnesia, starting with the above-mentioned raga, and seamlessly escalating into an amazing psychedelic rock finale.
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