Take me as I am (Rumer) (LP 3662 - 3663)

Rumer  Seasons of My Soul (CD, Atlantic Records, 2010) ****  

Rumer  Boys Don't Cry (CD, Atlantic Records, 2012) ****  

Genre: Adult pop

Places I remember: Fives, HMV

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Aretha (Seasons of My Soul)

Gear costume: Goodbye Girl (Seasons of My Soul - sounds uncannily like Karen Carpenter)

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6

Active compensatory factors: Rumer is Sarah Joyce - a Pakistani-British singer-songwriter. Seasons of My Soul is her debut album. It has a retro sixties sound (think Dusty Springfield) about it which somehow was perfect for 2010!

Her smooth, warm vocals are a thing of beauty and it's no wonder someone like Burt Bacharach's ears pricked up when he heard her. The backings are perfect - sympathetic and memorable.

Her second album - Boys Don't Cry features cover versions of songs by soft rock artists and writers from the 1970s (among them Jimmy Webb, Todd Rundgren, Terry Reid, Tim Hardin, Richie Havens, Gilbert O'Sullivan). 

Where do they all belong? For some reason I stopped collecting her albums. Maybe I'd figured this was enough?