Beauty and Sadness: Eliza Jaye's Stunning Middle Child Album review by Eric Sandberg Eliza Jaye's powerful, expressive voice cannot be ignored. Her tremendous ear and sense of melody cannot be ignored. Her mastery of multiple stringed instruments and lyrical beauty cannot be ignored. He voice rivals, and even surpasses Adele's in range and versatility and if she had been plucked from obscurity by some Svengali producer and ground through the major label A&R machine she would doubtless be a superstar. But then, we wouldn't have an album like Middle Child , a record I would snatch up [along with my dog and cat] if my house were on fire. Jaye spent years driving up, down and all around the UK in her tour van/recording studio, thrilling audiences with live performances while writing and recording songs on the fly. Her first album The Seed was released in 2013 and is now impossible to find. The album wears its Chrissie Hynde influences on its sleeve bu...
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