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Even though all of its five piano-bar odes come with an honors degree from the school of knocked-down heartbroken balladry (as evidenced by their very titles: "Heartache," "The Soundtrack of Your Life," "Girls Can Really Tear You Up Inside," "The Same Old Tears" and "Fading"), there's still something really romantic about Tears All Over Town, the debut outing for A Girl Called Eddy (who is, indeed, a girl called Eddy Moran). The fashionably frail figure she paints here is almost impossibly romantic; amid the woe and sighs and cries, Moran makes ever-so-pretty with music awash in salty-eyed late-night melancholia, stirring up gently poetic reminiscence through images of time, place and feeling, the words delivered with doleful, humbly soulful singing. For those possessing either sympathetic imagination or a predilection for impossible romanticism, the resulting gorgeous air induces the dreamy belief that this girl called Eddy must just love those Tracey Thorn and Marine Girls records as much as you do.
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