ROSALIE CUNNINGHAM

Shaken and stirred – former Purson bandleader has a licence to thrill on third solo album.

Jo Kendall, Dave Everley

prog.reviews@futurenet.com Rosalie Cunningham is having fun. It’s in every note, word and musical gesture on this, her third solo LP, the cinematically-styled To Shoot Another Day. This hasn’t always been the case She’s admitted that her 2019 self-titled debut and 2022’s Two-Piece Puzzle are trauma-inducing enough for her to give them the swerve until her courage is plucked up. Peculiar, as these are high-calibre works, but after leaving Purson in 2017 – the psych noir group that Cunningham founded in 2011 – she was finding her feet, having been mistakenly viewed as just the figurehead for the band and not its driving force. Six years on, she has a wealth of experience from composition to touring to music biz clout, and support and inspiration from life and work partner Rosco…

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