Sugar Honey by Carla J. Easton - Album Journey #2
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Sugar Honey - Carla J Easton Carla J Easton Website Bandcamp Olive Grove Website Bandcamp This LP positively drips with 80’s & 90’s pop influences and is utterly unapologetic about any of it. The drum machine, synths and layered vocals generate nostalgia, without outright copying the sounds or melodies; this is very much Carla’s take on how her songs must sound. She has self produced via her Adventures In Music Fanclub and I think that by doing this she has elevated this work to be something truly CJE. Despite what she claims, it’s not ‘uncool’, it’s one of 2023's coolest releases and a complete triumph of a record. Never Belong The LP starts with the steady driving of synths of ‘Never Belong’ and a lyric "I believe in birthdays, and the satisfaction of stolen kisses at night, so I took all my candles out and made a wish to always have you by my side, but I guess the both of use are never gonna compromise, so we'll never belong, we'll never belong... " T