Bird Rec. 
Le B : EP (UK,2009)****
So much can be resumed in just 5 small simple guitar-with-voice songs, as this EP proves, where you hardly realise all what was pressed in these one, two three minute songs before the next one provides already another switch of picture. “Good Fortune Sounds” is like the bittersweet wish with a beautiful happy-sad big girlish voice, with a need for sweetness or good fortune. Changing the guitar style twice in this short song, makes it sound very heartfelt and spontaneous. Equally convincing is Le B's voice for a folk traditional, “The Trees they do grow high”, followed by a “cat song” diagonal tripling by. This last song also has these brilliant changes in styles, from rather overdubbed acapella and footstamps, to a playful-like-a-cat change with driven bass body sounding a heavy forward approach for an acoustic guitar, before another acapalla ending. “The Drinking song” is once more very sad and dramatic song with dark edges performed with sweetness, a resume of a full evening or just a small image if not resumed to a lifestyle’s proportion, like a shocking but still poetic and aesthetic photograph of a person’s breakdown. “Things that happen when you write them down” concludes in an improvised way with a wisdom, realising that “the good thing about being lost is to be found”. A small treasure.
