Innocence Is Not A Crime

Apparently becoming something of a star in Scandinavia, Brigid Boden’s second album is awash with session muso stylings, all designed to rob the songs of any potential edge or grit. There’s a few stabs at cod mysticism and the odd splash of Celtic rock to keep the European market happy, but there is ultimately little here on offer aside from dull adult pop. And while we can forgive her awful version of Queen’s ‘Who Wants To Live Forever’, we cannot be so understanding when it comes to the murder of the Stones’ ‘As Tears Go By’.