Clara Engel is a Canadian singer with an expressive voice. As all artist with this particular feature is musical output is entirely based on the voice as instruments has the responsibility to create a quite impalpable background that has the function to close the void create by the natural rhythm of the verse.
"O my love is Hurricane" opens this release with a song based almost exclusively on the particular voice of this artist with only some sparse sounds as texture. "Illuminate me" is a folk song where the guitar has the role to rule the rhythm of the lyrics. "White elephant" features a jazzy instrumental landscape to the voice. "I wear your coat" is a lyric ballad for voice and guitar. "Opium song" opens the second side of this album (is released as a vinyl only) with an ethnical fell given by the percussion as a coloring element. "Why for an hour" is an evocative tune for voice and guitar while "How many horses" is instead for voice and piano. "Do you know how it is?" close this release with a folkish mode done by the mandolin.
This album is obviously not recommended for everyone searching for novelty, avantgarde or the next big thing however the simple form of a couple of instruments and a voice has a sort of charm that it's not easy to explain. It's that sort of beauty a down has, it's the thing you see everyday but it's the thing you cannot live without.