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Single Review

Two Face by Gabby Rivers

Release Date: 17th August 2023

It’s here at last!  Gabby Rivers latest single is out on all streaming services.


Gabby Rivers: Opening the doors on shop talk.
Pic: @ellenbphotography


This song has been acclaimed at recent gigs, including a Latitudes appearance and Brighten the Corners.  Two Face is a cathartic number written in response to the tedium of working in retail and how shop-talk can turn toxic when shop-talk turns to cheap gossip, where a professional smile is part of the job description.


Like shop work, the song has sharp changes of pace, before it’s end-of-day, I must absolutely get out of this place, screaming escape.  It is a dramatically structured piece of pop-rock.  Rivers and her band stroll in the front door of this number and crash out the staff exit having covered a chaotic working day in a three-minute smash and grab.

The richness of the Rivers’ voice and the energy of the band, who each wrote and contributed their parts, have provided a mini-musical with power in a single format.  Could this be the foundation for a retail-themed rock opera?


Recorded by Tom Donovan and produced by Jan Ashwell and Simon Britcliffe,  Two Face is out, running screaming down the high street, now!

 

Chris Perry

17th August 2023

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