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Renditions by Slow Moving Millie is out now

Gary is back with his latest review! This week he looks at Renditions by Slow Moving Millie...

Being featured on a TV commercial can massively help an artist hoping to break through into the public consciousness and Slow Moving Millie has the John Lewis Group to thank for a lot more people noticing this album release than they otherwise would have done.

The song in question was ‘Please Please Please Help Me Get What I Want’ and old Smiths song from the 80’s. That decade features large on this collection of covers. The pace of her hit song (dead slow) is replicated on most of these tracks. The only cover which even begins to mimic the original’s pace is her take on the Fiction Factory hit ‘Feels Like Heaven’. Other covers like the Thompson Twins ‘Hold Me Now’ and bizarrely Bananarama’s ‘Love In The First Degree’ are at a slow moving pace that barely gets into first gear. I like a cover version to deviate from the original and that’s certainly what happens here. It does however wear a bit thin.

The album closes with two originals – Beasts, and Hart With & Crown & Chain, both pleasant enough. John Lewis reported a very successful Christmas trading period, by the way. I wonder if Slow Moving Millie will be able to say the same now the baubles and tinsel are long gone?

Gary’s verdict: I give this album 3 out of 5