Name: Thelma
Brand: Thelma

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LPTE165

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-03-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

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Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0634457753013

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

CDTE165

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0634457753020

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Thelma

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Tiny Engines

Thelma's origin seems to suggest that Natasha Jacobs' musical abilities sprouted from the singer-songwriter almost spontaneously, whilst she convalesced after a life-changing fall from a ladder. 

On Thelma's self-titled debut, Natasha doubles down on at least one aspect of the tale; she asserts her right to be fallen. In doing so, Thelma reveals both a self that has been projected onto her as well as the fantasy of her own projected self. While the songwriter's falsetto is effortless and pure - its brilliant intricacies conveying playfulness and impetuousness - these seven songs are anything but pure. They make no pretense of representing a natural or spontaneous expressive moment. They are fastidious. And they are gigantic. If anything, the songs exude that most impure, un-sweet, un-angelic motivation: ambition. Within the lyrics too there is a thematic insistence on the writer not wanting to be pure or objectified.<br> <br> Above all, Thelma demonstrates real work; an exacting, intricate, sometimes beautifully sparse production with contrastingly serendipitous vocals. It demands attention to the band as a whole, and to Natasha Jacob's work as a composer, vocalist, and a wildly intense guitarist. - Akiva Zamcheck

Music GB