Back when Regina Spektor's latest album came out, we did a feature on why ONE song ("Fidelity") had unfairly ruined her reputation as a brilliant and promising singer/songwriter and painted her as a one-song-kitschy-wonder type of gal. Well a similar thing happened to Imogen Heap. Imogen, despite being generally viewed as the type of musician who gets lucky once (in her case, landing the emotional glossy American TV series finale slot) and is never heard of again, is, of course, so much more.
Her new album continues her quest to unite wildly disparate musical influences, styles and instruments in an eddying, swirling flurry of electronic magic. Here, on "Tidal" she employs South-Asian flavoured strings and vocals in an lush and involving mini-epic. It's glorious, like the rest of Ellipse, and further proof that she is a brilliant and genuinely innovative talent in her own right. And not just the woman responsible for that song.
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