Get Rhythm magazine, June 2002

	The Dear Janes
	Skirt
	Sore Thumb Records
 
	

	Dark work delivered with a deceptively light musical touch this, the
	Dear Janes' third album in their decade together is highly wrought on a
	number of levels. There's a perfect harmony between the respectively
	sweet'n'young and deeper'n'darker voices of the two Jane ladies (why 
	can no one in a Christian-named band match their professional title with
	personal birth certificates?) who share each song impressively equally.
	There's a lovingly loaded musical backdrop to each tune too. Songs
	like 'She Was The Dynamite' and the Billy Bragg and BJ Cole-boasting
	'Ship' are seemingly soft and pretty songs which slowly grow huge upon
	the listener, expanding in the eardrum in their own sweet time. This is
	truly involving entertainment, with enthusiastically depressive lonely-
	poetry lyrics counter-pointing the pretty melodies and near-Heavenly 
	vocal choralling.
	
	However, even more exciting than all of this simpler pleasure is 'Skirt's' 
	penultimate song 'Skimming', in which some insistent electronica and 
	edgy guitar finally match the bleak power of the intense, impassioned 
	vocal. As the Dear Janes grow darker, it seems they grow more brilliant 
	too. ES



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