Twenty-year-old Londoner Flo Morrissey was signed to Glassnote after a YouTube video caught the attention of company boss Daniel Glass. On Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful, her debut album, producers Noah Georgeson and Philippe Zdar have cast Morrissey’s impossibly pure voice in a pastoral soundscape. The absence of electronic wizardry gives the album a timeless quality, and nods to the artists who have influenced Morrissey: tragic troubadours such as Nick Drake, Karen Dalton and Tim Buckley. True, Morrissey’s voice can sigh and plead with the best of them – but for the most part her songs are gossamer-thin. Occasionally she stops keening and cooing and reveals a more interesting voice, slightly plummy, like Vashti Bunyan. “I can’t be a part of this villainy,” Morrissey sings on single Pages of Gold, in a line worthy of her namesake. Tomorrow almost certainly will be as beautiful for Flo Morrissey as her album title avers. But one longs for something more than mere prettiness, which over the course of a whole album becomes a bit glutinous.
