1 review for Breaking Boundaries

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   Rated 4 out of 5

   Robert – 25th March 2015

   “Jipsy ‘Breaking Boundaries’ Rush Music

   A six-track mini-album, this hinges on the vocal, instrumental and compositional talents of Sarah Ann Boughton, whose modus operandi embraces – during the same song in the case of ‘Hideaway’ – loose-limbed swing and a subdued ghostliness. Yet ‘Know Your Art’ defies adequate categorization, being closer to an Indian bhajan than mainstream pop. If you’re struggling for other reference points, I suppose Jipsy steers closest to a musical genre of the mid- to late-1960s that fused orthodox beat group instrumentation with orchestral woodwind and strings to create a downbeat mood of ‘beautiful sadness’ within the space of a three minute single. Think ‘For No One’ off Revolver, ‘Waterloo Sunset’, ‘Time Of The Season’…you get the drift. Such a comparison, however, doesn’t quite do this offering justice – though on instant replay throughout one rainy afternoon in May, a sort of pleasant and inexplicably autumnal melancholy crept up – as well as a more pragmatic feeling that, with future releases, a wider audience might be Sarah Ann Boughton’s for the taking.”

   Alan Clayson- The Beat