Ma Polaine's Great Decline - City Of Love

Ma Polaine�s Great Decline's third album City of Love follows from 2018�s The Outsider and 2015�s Got Me Out of Hell. The creative heart of the band are Beth Packer and Clinton Hough. Although they have been described variously over the years � with references to Billie Holiday, Tom Waits and a �moody Mary Margaret O�Hara� � Ma Polaine�s sound is very much their own. Beth�s effortlessly distinctive vocals and evocative lyrics, coupled with Clinton�s understated guitar, underpin each and every song and on City of Love we hear the character of Ma Polaine explored more deeply than ever before. Recorded at the duo�s home studio the album took a great deal of patience and experimentation to complete to their satisfaction. Self-engineering the album turned out to be an exhilarating and, at times, frustrating process with some songs taking up to five versions to get right. The result was worth it; the Ma Polaine aesthetic burns brightly on City of Love�s eleven original tracks, which are every bit as compelling as you�d expect them to be.