Here's a charmingly old-fashioned thing: a personal pop-soul exegesis by a white woman with no apparent interest in being musically trendy.She's a (Se...
Andy Gill - 23.04.2010
It would be easy to imagine, listening to Diane Birch's debut album, that she had spent years keenly studying the same R&B influences that guided her ...
Tom Useted - 02.09.2009
I’m embarrassed to admit that the only reason I wanted to review this album was because a Facebook ad kept asking me something to the effect of,...
Stephen Foster - 17.06.2009
Part torch, here and there the blues, all soul; now add gospel and toss with the echo of Elton John’s piano work: clearly Diane Birch, who is all of t...
Lailaa Salaam - 09.06.2009
Hats off and hands up for singer/songwriter Diane Birch for her debut album "Bible Belt." If you add a little bit of quirky Nelly Furtado with soulful...
Simon Vozick-Levinson - 02.06.2009
There's certainly nothing wrong with a young singer-songwriter choosing to imitate Carole King, and Diane Birch's debut album is a cornucopia of spot-...
WILL HERMES - 01.05.2009
Diane Birch is a piano-playing preacher's daughter with a shameless love for Sixties and Seventies soul and singer-songwriter pop. Her welterweight vo...