Music Minnie Driver's new single Everything I've Got In My Pocket feels like opening a window into another reality where teenagers don't rule the pop charts and Madonna never happened, as though we're still getting over a Carly Simon/Carole King explosion. She has this strongly intangible vocal style -- it doesn't sound like anything you've encountered before yet utterly familiar (and no not because you've seen Good Will Hunting, I kind of etherial Jewel Kilcher. More importantly it doesn't sound like an actress putting out an album because her acting career is on the slide. Like Julie Delpy last year, some thought has gone into this -- especially in terms of evoking the personality behind the voice. An odd a spectacle as it was to see Driver on Top of the Pops the other week performing the live preview, didn't it just seem right somehow as though Minnie should have been doing the acting thing on the side of a thundering music career?
[Just a quick on the format of the single -- its a three inch cd frames by an inch of clear plastic all the way around creating a standard five incher. It's a gorgeously space age thing which seems like just the right way to sell a two track single.]
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