Tender Prey

Tender Prey keep delivering the fractured, melodic gold while adding a nicely British starkness, a la PJ Harvey or certain-period Roxy Music - Joy Collective

Tender Prey – the artist formerly known as Le B – cuts quite the figure onstage. She looks every inch the rock chick in her long black dress and leather boots, and she plays her electric guitar with all the clumsy glee of someone who’s excited just to be rocking out in front of an audience. But her wide-eyed power chords are tempered by a more mature and thoughtful side; songs like ‘Good Wife’ display a Jansch-esque ear for a good folky tune, and her lyrical talent is evident throughout. Closing cut ‘Velvetine’ is a pretty good summation of Tender Prey’s sound: quiet and poetic verse, loud and distorted chorus (somewhat reminsicent of Jefferson Airplane), and the coda, during which she breaks loose with a fantastically unhinged ‘woo-hoo!’ - Miniature Music Press - themmp.tv