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Romy review – a masterclass in bittersweet feeling
Showcasing her debut solo album, last year’s Mid Air, the xx frontwoman escapes the elegant restraint of her band with a set full of euphoric rhythms and unambiguous hymns to her wife
Accompanied by musical director Francine Perry on a bank of electronic gear, Romy has been singing of new love and nursing some old hurts, all to thumping 4/4 percussion, rave stabs and the odd house piano. Built around a sample of Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s moving song La Vita – “My mother says to me: ‘Enjoy your life’” – the track is an unabashed hymn to having fun, taking risks and being more authentic. The album is giddy, high; full of unambiguous love for Romy’s now wife, whom she first met years previously – the meat of a moving song called Twice.
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