Pasadena Weekly – TRAX

Pasadena Weekly

By Bliss 08/07/2014

LOUISE GOFFIN, Songs From the Mine (Majority of One)

Singing in a girlish soprano that sounds like a more cosmopolitan Julie Miller, Goffin offers sweetly touching, melodic ballads of encouragement (“Everybody But You,” “Here Where You Are Loved”), understanding (“Some of Them Will Fool You”) and self-mocking introspection (the French-splattered “Deep Dark Night of the Soul”), plus a couple of life-affirming pop-rockers for good measure. Her midtempo proclivities are brightened by unexpected instrumental choices — ukulele here, tuba there — that grab the ear. At the Viper Room in West Hollywood Thursday, Aug. 14. louisegoffin.com