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# REVIEW: Looking Glass: Paul Diello
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/review-looking-glass-paul-diello/
- Published: 2014-08-14T07:42:32.000Z
- Updated: 2014-08-14T07:42:32.000Z
- Description: Brighton-based singer/songwriter Paul Diello performed a rousing set at Brighton Pride in time for the release of his second album, Looking Glass. The collection kicks off with the ‘80s-tinged single, ‘(I Am A) Voodoo Doll’, a creeping, almost hypnotic, track surely suitable for a late-night shimmy
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: Arts, Music, News, Reviews, Paul Diello

## Brighton-based singer/songwriter Paul Diello performed a rousing set at Brighton Pride in time for the release of his second album, *Looking Glass*.

![Paul Diello](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/web-60054.jpg)

The collection kicks off with the ‘80s-tinged single, *‘(I Am A) Voodoo Doll’*, a creeping, almost hypnotic, track surely suitable for a late-night shimmy with the lights turned down low before settling into *‘Auto’* a crashing indie tune with evocative, and imaginative, sea-shanty vibes.

After a cracking opening, Paul, a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, turns down the bass for the acoustic piano-heavy *‘Same’*, a stirring ballad blanched in reverb, before turning it back up for the moody *‘Rock the Boat’* and *‘Amaryllis’*, a song evoking **Boy George**, vocally at least, with fizzy keyboards replacing George’s lilting bass.

By the midway point things mellow out a bit with two slinky R&B-infused numbers that could be deemed as filler. While *‘Thick Skin’*, the stronger of the two, showcases Paul’s vocals, and his falsetto in particular, which melds effortlessly with the orchestral backing, *‘Butterflies’* is just a little too anodyne to really take off.

R&B dalliances aside, the colossal Anthony and the Johnsons-esque epic *Whenever You May Find Her*, which clocks in at just shy of 7 minutes, finds Paul flexing his songwriting muscle, back behind the piano, retrained, controlled and subdued before the thunder of drums and multi-layered vocals lead it to its ultimate conclusion.

*Looking Glass* by **Paul Diello** is out in September.

**For more information, [CLICK HERE:](http://www.pauldiello.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**