Holly Throsby is precognitive; Team is a cosy winter longplayer, and releasing amid the most wintery summer in recent memory is supernaturally savvy. Vocally, she is yet another student of the breathy indie-pop style, but by her fourth album, she seems to be wielding her own special control over it—subtler than the sickly sweet Lisa Mitchell, yet with more personality and vibrancy than Julia Stone, and nimbler than Sarah Blasko. It is hers.
Holly pays no particular respect to choruses—Team’s arrangements are free-spirited and unpredictable, reigned in by dainty plucking and, only to prance out again. ‘To See You Out’ and ‘It’s Funny’ are the most wanted culprits here.
Team is a curious title for a solo-record, but it’s aptness is quickly apparent: Holly is singing to her shadow, the pair of them forming and decoding whispered secrets as she goes; oftimes bleating responses to her own husky questions from the background (‘It’s Only Need’). It can feel a little alienating at first, but listening to team Throsby is a splendid spectator sport.
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