[MaugleeRobins]

Fantastic live version of "This Ain't No Hymn":

http://travellingsounds.tumblr.com/p...mn-the-amazing

uh-mazing. Thanks for sharing!

[Investblogger]

This girl is really good live! I saw her in Newcastle HMV today, but was late and only caught "This Ain't No Hymn". She really felt it, her voice is beautiful. I hope she does a proper tour soon.

[Investblogger]

uh-mazing. Thanks for sharing!

You're welcome She was actually better than this when I saw her yesterday.

New video for "Some Things Change":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyWez_Nkz2o

[Investblogger]

Is anyone else a fan of her? Her new EP "Suukei" will be released on 3rd October.

The first song from it reminds me of Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins:



I loved "This Ain't No Hymn" from her last EP:

[MaugleeRobins]

I'm in love. headoverheels.
This Ain't No Hymn is pretty much my song of the year.

Here In Me sounds like it won't be far behind. ace.


more songs -
http://soundcloud.com/saintsaviour


http://saintsaviour.co.uk/shop/



‘Suukei’ EP – Limited Edition, Signed and hand stamped CD
This is a very limited run of 200 CD’s.
They are hand stamped with art by Liam McMahon, signed and posted by me.

1. Red Sun
2. Here in Me
3. Some Things Change
4. Army Dreamers

http://soundcloud.com/saintsaviour/a...mers-kate-bush

[Investblogger]

Video for Red Sun:



Very Kate Bush!

[Golotop]

Me too! Her voice is extraordinary. My favorites are Reasons and Hurricanes from the Anatomy EP.

[Investblogger]

Fantastic live version of "This Ain't No Hymn":

http://travellingsounds.tumblr.com/p...mn-the-amazing

She's doing an EP signing tour with live performances next week:

HMV/FOPP DATES FOR NEXT WEEK: NEWCASTLE HMV 5PM MONDAY, MANCHESTER HMV 5PM TUESDAY, NOTTINGHAM FOPP 5PM WED, LONDON FOPP 5PM THURS X

[MaugleeRobins]

New live vids -


Here In Me


Hymn


Liberty (new song)




Just noticed - the version of HereInMe on soundcloud is an early demo...
http://soundcloud.com/saintsaviour/here-in-me


Suukei Ep went topten on itunes. building up a bit of momentum...

[MaugleeRobins]

Becky's got a pledgemusic site going
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/saintsaviour

(it managed to hit the target within 24 hours, but is continuing so as to fund extra LP goodies/vids/promo)
http://saintsaviour.co.uk/blog/well-that-was-quick/






BOUDICEA - due 2012




News: I’ve recorded an album and it’s brilliant. There are at least 15
songs, 13 of them previously un-released.

I’m at the stage of mixing it now and it will be ready to master by mid
December. I’ve picked the artwork and named it ‘Boudicea’.

All will become clear as things develop, but the spirit of the album is a
fighter, with an iron fist and a big heart.







coversfun -

[MaugleeRobins]

The album's been re-titled UNION and is out June 25.



Tracklisting

1. Mercy
2. Tightrope
3. I Call This Home
4. Liberty
5. Fight
6. Reasons
7. This Aint No Hymn
8. Jennifer
9. Domino
10. The Rain Falls On The Just
11. Dreamtime
12. Fallen Trees
13. Horse
14. After All (Bonus Track)
15. Chaos (Bonus Track)


New single I Call This Home



http://soundcloud.com/saintsaviour/i...home-1/s-KvIeZ



http://www.planetnotion.com/2012/04/...all-this-home/
EXCLUSIVE SINGLE: Saint Saviour – I Call This Home
We have for you an exclusive play of Saint Saviour’s (AKA Becky Jones) new track ‘I Call This Home’. Lyrically, it deals with the “complicated relationship you have with your roots, and when you try to escape them,” says Jones.

This is the lead single from her forthcoming album Union and is awash with light reverbed electric guitars, filled with momentum by booming drum beats and accumulating instrumental layers. With the aesthetic of an otherworldly Karen O and the voice of ’80s/’90s femme fatales, Saint Saviour is one of our fave female singers around. No surprise, considering her previous experience co-writing and fronting Groove Armada. Saint Saviour’s debut record is out on 25th June, but for now listen to ‘I Call This Home’ on the Soundcloud widget.

[gedsiz]

^Thanks for posting that, I'm really digging the new single. She reminds me so much of early Kate Bush. On her Soundcloud she has a lot of amazing covers, some of which were already posted on here, and others like Happy House by Siouxsie, and Old Man by Neil Young, which are both really great. Looking forward to the full album.

[aparneioninny]

more dalston videos in the works. here's magic hour for those who missed it - xx

[MaugleeRobins]

So beautiful.

[aparneioninny]

hey guys - look out for the video for "I Call This Home" to premiere tomorrow!!!! It was directed by the same fella that did "Fallen Trees" - it's gorgeous. happy to say after a long long time of keeping my eye on this project, I'm working with SS!!! Any US fans out there? We gotta unite! As bringing her here is dependent on getting her the attention she deserves.

#insidertip

xo to all. man I miss this forum. life got stupid crazy this past year. i'm gonna make uF my homepage!!!

[erubresen]

So happy I clicked on this thread! Love this so much.

[MaugleeRobins]

hey guys - look out for the video for "I Call This Home" to premiere tomorrow!!!! It was directed by the same fella that did "Fallen Trees" - it's gorgeous. happy to say after a long long time of keeping my eye on this project, I'm working with SS!!!

Kickass! In what capacity are you working with her?

New video is haunting. Currently unlisted on youtube, so here tis:


I think the video mix is slightly altered/extended in the bridge, too.


Hurry up, Union.

[aparneioninny]

yeah the video mix keeps getting changed, but the one here is near complete:

http://www.nylonmag.com/?section=article&parid=8057

this remix is amazing: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/05/rea...ou-state-remix

howie, I do pr. All I will say is, you will all be pleasantly happy with Union. It's my favorite album in a very very long time.

[MaugleeRobins]

AOTY will be a deathmatch between Saint & Fiona - UNION is fucking supreme. I described it to a friend as Fever School of Seven Bushfrapps - but that barely even begins to cover it.

My heart sank when I realised she'd re(recorded?)mixed ThisAin'tNoHymn, but the new version is brilliant, and fits the album proper.
Current highlights: Tightrope, Jennifer, The Rain, Chaos.

One particular point worth noting is just how adept Becky is at heartbreaking fragile balladry, as to the balls-to-the-wall electrobangers. Her voice is so uniquely emotional and haunting - at first I thought there was quite a bit of studio trickery and pitchshifting going on, but it's entirely her - as the live vocals can attest...

[MaugleeRobins]

I hope the critical raves start to bend ears open in Becky's direction...


http://www.planetnotion.com/2012/06/...saviour-union/

It must be said, 2012 has unexpectedly turned out to be an applause-worthy year for new music and, hey, it’s only June! Yes, there have been some whiffers along the way but, all in all, we’re pretty pleased with the recent crop. A highlight in the summer’s release schedule is, without doubt, “Union”, the debut album from Saint Saviour, which follows in the footsteps of her sensationally good EPs, “Anatomy” and “Suukei”.

How Becky Jones has not gyrated her way into international mega stardom status yet is beyond our present comprehension capabilities. Suffice it to say, however, that her blend of clever song-writing, powerful voice and infallible stage presence (as witnessed at Lovebox, last week) should, before long, secure an ever-increasing audience for her songs.

Here, we give you an overview of her excellent debut, with track-by-track commentary.

“Mercy”: a sedate opener, layered with reverb-enriched harmonised vocals and backed by a morose piano. You can imagine Siobhan Donaghy doing something like this if she ever makes a sequel to Ghosts.

“Tightrope”: things pretty much stay on a sullen note with this one. When the beats come in, however, there’s a Portishead trip-hop feel to this track, which opened Jones’ Lovebox set. The hook, “You acted like you knew me and I knew you”, works beautifully with the soulful backing vocals.

“I Call This Home”: The single. We’ve already written about this track and our love for it has only increased since its release a few weeks ago. With hindsight-enabled spex, we view it as an odd choice for first single, seeing as nothing on the album quite matches its rockiness and, that being the case, it is not particularly representative of the rest of the record. But this doesn’t change the fact that it is a great, great track.

“Liberty”: Now, this song we can certainly see as a future single. Jones sings: “it’s a question for you, it’s a question for me, are we really free” on top of an electronic soundscape, which more closely resembles the style of “Anatomy” and “Suukei”. We’d love to see a lavish noir video for this.

“Fight”: Uh-oh, things slow down again but don’t let that put you off. This song poses a valid quandary: “what’s a life without a fight?” File this alongside Sia’s “Breathe Me”. Saint Saviour has described this as one of her favourites from the album and, whilst for us it is not as immediate as some of the other numbers, you can be assured that it is a grower.

“Reasons”: a golden oldie which has been included on the album due to popular demand and due to the fact that it is pretty much amazing. Mind you, we’re not doing very well on the bringing the tempo up front at this point. Oh, wait, here comes “This Ain’t No Hymn”.

“This Ain’t No Hymn”: if you’ll pardon the cut-and-paste-ness of it all, this is another a golden oldie which has been included on the album due to popular demand and due to the fact that it is pretty much amazing. Re-recorded for the album, it was – in its original version – the lead track on “Anatomy” and remains one of the most instant Saint Saviour offerings to date.

“Jennifer”: well, this is simply the most marvellous piece of bonkers since, erm… since the last iamamiwhoami single. In fact, it sounds so much like iamamiwhoami’s “U-2”, that we’d love for someone to do a mash-up of the two songs before the season is quite out, thanks.

“Domino”: where the most unlikely song ever to include a rap gets to include a rap and somehow make it work. Like “Liberty”, this is one of the tracks that is more reminiscent of Saint Saviour’s EP output. Definitely a favourite.

“The Rain Fall On The Just”: don’t be misled by the a capella intro, here. This song goes in a totally different direction to where you expect it to go. Yes, the intro suggests a “Kumbayah”-style ditty but this is, in fact, an 80s-tickled sing-along-er. At the time of writing, this is our most listened to track on “Union”. BRILLIANT.

“Dreamtime”: very Goldfrapp-when-they’re-quiet, this. Lovely, but doesn’t really go anywhere.

“Fallen Trees”: Saint Saviour’s “Someone Like You”. Not thematically, perhaps, but put it this way: if this song got the attention it deserves, you’d be sick of it by October/November time because every X-Factor contestant would be singing it at their auditions. Touching, depressing and altogether incredible.

“Horse”: things end on a – yes, you guessed it – quiet note. Stating the obvious here, but “Horse” would be ideal on the soundtrack to any future screen adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s “Equus”. We like this one a lot but we can’t help thinking that Saint Saviour’s curiously-left-off previous single, “Here In Me”, would have been a more exhilarating finale to this near-masterpiece of a record.

Our overall verdict: buy this. Buy this post haste.

- Doron Davidson-Vidavski


http://www.musicomh.com/albums/saint-saviour_0612.htm

Becky Jones, in her Saint Saviour guise, is likely best known to date as a Groove Armada protégé/singer/co-writer. After honing a sound of her own through touring solo and with her former band The RGBs, Jones has turned her writing talents to something fresh, not to mention different from what's gone before. As Saint Saviour, she has in Union produced an album of startling diversity and unrestrained passion, one on which, despite her pop sensibilities, absolutely nothing is off limits. Surprises lurk around every corner; the stark artwork that adorns the front sleeve of Union underlines that this is the work of someone who is fearless. A skeletal house has gone up in flames, and this is an image that makes an immediate impression; a brilliant flash of colour lit up against a pitch-black night sky. It is a striking visual metaphor; that which is familiar has been set ablaze.

Jones's captivating voice is a keening soprano, and sometimes it dominates what surrounds it, as it does on the superbly understated album opener Mercy. An echoing, atmospheric piano line is set against swoon-worthy harmonies and voices filled with longing. Near the three-minute mark, the song takes a skillful U-turn, as a lone cello enters, transforming the earlier piano melody into something much more unsettling and, sometimes, atonal. This is clearly a song of two halves, and serves as an accurate indicator of the album, for Union combines different moods and styles into a cohesive whole.

There are times when the album can seem a little difficult, but this is only because Jones dares to be ambitious. Tightrope is a pop song at heart, but one that is wrapped up in a sound that plays to the song's strengths, ensuring that its minimalistic approach has the intended effect. It allows the album to settle into itself, and from then on, things only get better. Likewise, there are times when Jones goes for sheer accessibility and strikes gold, as she does on Dreamtime. The album mixes nuanced production and a layered sound with melodies that are allowed to shine the brightest of all. The infectious nature of the guitar hook on Liberty means it's impossible to ignore, and I Call This Home is a perfect calling card for the album and was the lead single. It is majestic, with the singer's voice displaying an impressive range as it navigates a melody which flows with effortless grace, and its creator tackles the thorny subject of wanting to escape one's roots, something which she achieves with no trouble on an album that is dramatic and fulfilling in a way that would sound overwrought in the hands of less talented people.

The spellbinding pop-noir of This Ain't No Hymn is the album highlight, a minor-key song that, quite ironically, is one of the most uplifting moments on the record, thanks in no small part to its wordless chorus; it provides the perfect opportunity for Jones's voice to soar, and she makes the most of it. It is also the moment on the album where Union goes major-league. The introduction to Jennifer manipulates Jones's voice and creates an intoxicating ambience, one which lingers for a moment before being completely obliterated by its powerful electro hook. It's as though she delights in how intense her music can sometimes be, but from here on out, she accomplishes everything she sets her mind to. The Rain Falls On The Just and the heart-wrenching closer Horse could only have been written by someone who brought their A-game, and she does them justice. Songs like these would fall flat in the hands of people less capable than Jones, but her masterful songcraft ensures that Union only gets better as it progresses. This is an album whose momentum is sustained over nearly an hour's worth of music, which is impressive enough; the fact that Jones does it with such ease ensures that her debut solo album is a minor triumph.


and another new live from Dalton Heights vid -