The first single from Isobel's 2013 release, 'In My Garden'.
lyrics
You look iike a film star,
And you voice is softer than snow,
Your eyes,
Sparkle like sunlight,
You're well dress from head to toe.
Your hair sweeps to the side,
Almost as if you don't care.
You're a gentleman.
You speak perfect Spanish,
And your sister's fluent in French,
Your mother's dazzlingly ditsy,
And your father's tastefully bent.
There's no country you can't name,
No woman you wouldn't woo.
You're a gentleman.
Pour me another cup of tea,
Load up my scone with some cream,
I need a gentleman.
You're a gentleman.
You play chess at the weakends,
And you holiday in Europe each year.
Your friends all work in the city,
You've no fury or fear.
You shop at Fortnum and Mason
Whenever a Birthday comes round.
You're a gentleman.
And now that it's cloudy,
And leaves fall to the ground,
i feel I could do,
With a gentleman around, so,
Pour me another cup of tea,
Load up my scone with some cream,
I need a gentleman.
I need a gentleman and nothing else will do.
But if a gentleman's so gentle,
Why's it hurt so much to love a gentleman,
Like you.
You're a gentleman.
credits
from In My Garden,
track released September 21, 2013
Voice, Guitar: Isobel Anderson
Violin: Ruby Colley
Recorded, mixed and masteres: Paul Pascoe
Written and Produced: Isobel Anderson
“Beautiful, shimmering and wonderful... I highly recommend the album… a stunning new
record.”
Lauren Lavern - BBC Radio 6 Music
"As I go through the pile of CD's I receive every week sometimes you come across something really special. I love this record... Real effortless simplicity. Dark path is a great album".
This is the first album I found that really spoke to me as a young fem.
From the simplicity, the bass drum, specifically in landfill is so steady and soothing. I love landfill because it perfectly portrays trauma bonds, sexual or romantic relationships rooted in power imbalance. Being led on, unrequited love, constantly being clueless if someone is a real friend, or a lover. Are they yours or are they ruthlessly rogue. Untameable. Love and hate are such similar feelings, and they often mingle. clementinehatepageichangedmymind
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Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell