Globelamp - The Orange Glow

“I’m blocking out the negative,” sings Globelamp’s Elizabeth le Fey repeatedly on a track titled, well, ‘The Negative’. It’s a line which sums up this album pretty accurately, as it goes. ‘The Orange Glow’ is less fist-pumping ball of joy than the sound of a woman living within a vast landscape of her own creation, a Technicolor palette of 60s California, 18th Century English villages and what one imagines the interior of legendary shop Granny Takes A Trip looked like. Hers is a glam-folk sound; hints of psychedelia here and there, ‘classic’ songwriting and oft strange pronunciation - with glitter sprinkled on top.

This is a record that’s wilfully away with the fairies, wistfully looking backwards, hopeful and makes full use of 60s folk-pop tropes without once becoming precocious or twee. No easy task. Like the Wonderland Alice walks through, or Willy Wonka’s factory, there are fantastical twists and turns within ‘The Orange Glow’, and matched with gorgeously simple songs this makes for an endlessly captivating album.