LEE SMYTHE RAISES A SMILE WITH ‘IT’S ME’
Posted on 25 June 2021
How to describe Lee Smythe; well, if there’s a word somewhere specifically for that anachronistic blend of quirky indie vibe perfection and total mainstream pop hit, then that would be a starting point to jump off.
‘It’s Me’, the follow-up to recent EP ‘King Of Cups’, is exactly that – something indescribably great that doesn’t quite fit into any pigeonhole you might have set aside for it. In the same vein as artists like the Urban Voodoo Machine, The Great Malarky, or the Jim Jones Revue, Smythe seems to straddle stylistic boundaries without ever really even noticing they’re there – part old-time London pub sing-along, part indie-pop cool, part alt-jazz musicality.
There’s touches of Daniel Powter, Jamie Cullum, and Harry Connick Jr. in here, but all with a mainstream pop take, and some cute-as-hell little vocal asides-to-camera; it’s just catchy as hell cool-as-fuck indie-pop awesomeness, and it’s absolutely grin-inducing.
Perfection in 4 minutes 12 seconds.
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Review by Alex Holmes