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The Longue Durée

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'The Longue Duree' is an album worth purchasing for the three opening tracks alone; after that everything else is a welcome bonus. From the first few bars of 'Undeserving You', which will lure you straight in with an infectious hook and remain with you for days, to the soaring guitars opening 'The Ace' and filling-out 'An Alliance of Thieves' - already deserving of much larger venues than they have played to date - and on through the wistful 'Olympus' to pop-punk-grew-up 'Fire Drill' and the epic 'Vicarious Haunting', this is a record which will not leave your playlists for weeks. And you won't want it to.

Emily Schambra's astonishingly powerful voice - which appears effortless live - ranges from the fiercely passionate to the haunting ('Shatter Historic' works phenomenally in the dark), and gives Holy Roman Empire an enormous advantage over their contemporaries. Distinctive and clearly talented, recent comparisons to other female-fronted acts cannot do them justice.

I first heard this band on Last.fm, their songs won me over. I bought the album, and wow!!! I haven't had to change a single song (Even the songs that aren't on last.fm), this is one album I can listen to all the way through. It is worth the buy, trust me. If you like mellow rock with female vocals, this is an album you can't miss. I highly recommend it.