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Jennifer Lyn & The Groove Revival—
Retrograde—J & R Collective

This new album from JL & TGR features ten original
compositions from Jennifer and Richard Torrance;

they also share the production duties. The band are;

Jennifer; lead vocals and guitar, Richard Torrance;
vocals and guitar, Barb Jiskra; keyboards, Nolyn

Falcon; bass and Jim Anderson, provides the drum
work.

The opener, ‘Light The Fire’, and ‘Searching For Solid Ground’, use fiery almost, heavy

metal dual lead guitars to propel and seduce you into a maelstrom of nonetheless
enjoyable and surging emotions, while Jennifer’s raw, commanding vocals lead the

way.

‘Sucker For The Pain’ is a bluesy piano and guitar led roller with JL delivering a
warmly raw vocal. ‘Refuge’ is a satisfying, guitar crying, blues slow burner. ‘Do Bad

Things To You’ has a slow, low, urging sinisterly searing organ, entwined with an

equally dark guitar.

‘Soul Saver’ possesses a slinky flowing jazz inflected feel, combined with the addition

of a richly warming emotional guitar.

‘Baggage’ delivers a grooving, piano fuelled second-line strut, complete with a rumba

percussive feel and sweetly singing guitars which underpin JL’s harmoniously

soothing vocal. In ’59 Cadillac’ the jaunty, almost spooky, urban-funky, low key
guitars and popping organ, underpin a tale of Cadillac revenge. JL’s sweetly soft

vocals delight in telling the tale of stealing her ex-lover’s car.

‘Breaking Chains’ is a building tale of freedom from a failed affair. The confidently
soaring vocals are matched by the insistently inviting piano and soaring, duelling

guitar work.

On the ballad, ‘Do It All Again’, JL’s emotionally confident vocal is sympathetically

paired with the slowly rising, duelling melancholic guitars on this ode to a failed

affair but, with no regrets, only a desire to…..

Most enjoyable!

Brian Harman