''It Walks Like Love'' is the fourth album from Australian singer-songwriter

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. It was released on 12 May 2009 on Chiquita Records through Inertia Records in Australia. It was recorded at Big Jesus Burger Studios in Sydney by Burke Reid and features musicians from Australian bands

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and The Scare, and a duet with

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from the

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. Australian artist James Powditch created a mixed media artwork inspired by the album for the Archibald Prize entitled 'She Walks Like Love'. Carmen previewed the album in a solo showcase at

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2009. and undertook limited tours in Australia with

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and

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Track listing

# "Rugged Love & Thin Air" (3:38) # "Oh Apollo!" (2:58) # "Mimic The Rain" (4:19) # "Gauloises Blue" (4:36) # "Cheap Glue" (4:08) # "Flames vs Lightning" (4:37) # "Another Man" (5:06) # "Thirty Records" (5:06) # "Devil's Lullabye" (4:42) # "Sunday Night" (3:40)

Personnel

– vocals, guitar *Sam Worrad – bass *Sam Pearton – drums *Brock J Fitzgerald – guitar with: *

– guitar and vocals on "Oh Apollo!" *

Peter Head Peter Head (born Peter Beagley 1946, Adelaide) is an Australian rock music pianist and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his work with the progressive rock band Headband from February 1971 to 1974. He then formed The Mount Lofty Rangers wi ...

– piano on "Gauloises Blue" and "Devil's Lullaby" * Tex Perkins – background vocals on "Gauloises Blue" * Holiday Sidewinder – background vocals and tambourine on "Gauloises Blue" and "Oh Apollo!" *Kristyna – background vocals on "Gauloises Blue" *

Wade Keighran Wade Keighran (born 1 August 1984) is an Australian rock musician, songwriter, audio engineer and record producer currently based in Sydney. He started his career playing guitar in punk band Taking Sides, was the bass player and co-songwriter wi ...

– background vocals and tambourine on "Mimic the Rain"

Reception

Single 'Mimic The Rain' received limited radio airplay and the album had a generally positive reception. Faster Louder said 'Carmen's voice saunters all silk and smoke...a magnetically absorbing album' and Alt Media called it 'her best work to date'. Inpress stated ‘It's always been about the voice...beauty and danger, knowing and innocence, sex and longing, and love, both sacred and profane... Loene Carmen's individual mix of torch blues, gothic country, with occasional outbreaks of smoky nightclub has seduced many who hear it. ..She sings it, you believe her. And that's enough’ while J Mag described it as 'a sun-bleached, neon-soaked dusty road trip, stopping at every sleazy smoky roadhouse, cheap hotel and dirty diner on the way'.

References

External links

*http://messandnoise.com/releases/2000511 *http://www.jamespowditch.com.au/artworks/LoeneCarmen.html {{Authority control 2009 albums Loene Carmen albums