Take dark themes of dysfunctionality and fractured lives, wrap them in sugar-coated candyfloss melodies and pour them into crystal decanters. Filter them through electronic psychedelics that owe an equal debt to Portishead and Beck and if you can imagine what might come out the other end, you've got a good chance of guessing what Sarah Nixey's first solo album might sound like. Ignore its own subheading - "Through the glitter and the grandeur, there's life in the cabaret" - as there's very little cabaret here and very much more that can be traced back to the influence of producer James Banbury.  Full text...

Listening to it gives one the sensation of having wandered into the soundscape of a film soundtrack; or into a very adult and cynical, yet still reluctantly romantic, fairytale world.  Full text...

Sing, Memory is a glossy, shimmering presentation. It bleeps and trills, swoons and climbs, and coolly exudes the confidence of some professionally-executed electronic jiggery-pokery.  Full text...

Sarah Nixey sounds at her best when gentler, and with more feeling, as exemplified by four and a half songs here.I preferred Sarah Nixey as lead singer of B.B.R., and, although this is good in places, in comparison there is no comparison… D'OH!!!!!  Full text...