Leche

VINYL FORMAT. The last time Meredith Godreau recorded and produced songs in her bedroom it was 2006, it was pop music, and Gregory & The Hawk became an internet sensation. For follow-up Moenie and Kitchi, Godreau entered a proper studio with a host of collaborators. In 2010, Gregory & The Hawk returned to the bedroom. Her third full-length, Leche, finds her peeling back layers of production, of emotion, of space between herself and the world, to find a raw honesty. This more stripped-back approach allows the stunning voice of a clearly gifted singer to shine through, unabated; complemented rather than obstructed by the harps, guitars and creepy sonic knick-knacks that have found their way in. This is not pop music. Leche demonstrates the distance Godreau has travelled from the gentle, hook-centric simplicity of her earlier material, but her peerless grasp of head-bobbing rhythms, ear-piquing hooks, and otherworldly, punctuating noise snippets clearly remains - keeping the listener humming along through even the darker bits of her latest effort.