Rosabella Gregory, Everything Comes Together

Artist: Rosabella Gregory Released: 08 September 2008 Oscillating arpeggios and slave labour collide on this debut album from half Egyptian, Devon raised singer songwriter Gregory. A Royal Collage of Music graduate, there's more than a hint of the kind of prodigious skill you would expect from somebody who has had ample time to spend in empty classrooms with baby grand pianos. Third person narratives are a strong point of Gregory's style. India, China breaches the topic of Far Eastern sweatshops without too much prechary as Gregory guiltily muses: ''As I'm eating my dinner, the girl I won't meet is making five hundred shirts and long skirts with a pleat''. Elodie is the heroine of a nefarious tale that could have come from the pen of Pat Barker or Jean Rhys. ''Elodie doesn't like the man her mother invited to stay/ Elodie... [read full story]