Anna Connolly's new album, After Thoughts, is released through Runaway Girl Records. Connolly's songs combine engaging story-telling with subdued, minimal guitar playing; it’s acoustic folk in presentation, but punk rock in spirit...

Anna Connolly's voice is the one aspect I'd say will divide listeners. Like Billy Bragg, it'll either be a major, out of tune distraction, or you'll hear past it to the music and lyrics.

The 11 songs (40 min, 56 sec) are varied enough to keep your attention and ensure, if you're a fan, you keep coming back to this album time and time again... That's if, and this is a big "if", you are not turned off by the vocals.

5

Nick Smithson