Louise Latham - Melt Me Down Like Chocolate

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BBC Radio Wales Artist Of The Week Radio Single.

A Child In My Eyes - Louise Latham

Erase Me - single released from Louise Latham's album Reclaimed

Have you ever told anyone
About the passion in your heart?
Have you ever told anyone
That you follow me in the dark?

Cos I’ve been telling everyone
About the shadows in my heart
I’ve been telling everyone
About the lie that’s just been cast

Go on erase me from your heart
I won’t feel a thing
Go on erase me from your heart
I won’t leave a trace

Have you ever told anyone
That you read the words I write?
Have you ever told anyone
About the river that you’ve cried?

Cos I’ve been telling everyone
About the words that have been revealed
I’ve been telling everyone
The wound you made hasn’t healed

Go on erase me from your heart
I won’t feel a thing
Go on erase me from your heart
I won’t leave a trace

Erase Me

Young Boy - single released from album Reclaimed

Young boy
Tender heart
Too soft to touch
Young girl
Careless heart
Too young to trust

Young girl
Takes his heart playfully
Young girl
Bruises it for all to see
She left a hole in his head
She swept his heart under her bed
And he said

Why are you not soft like the words my mother spoke?
Why are you not sweet like the milk I used to drink?
Why are you so unkind?

Young Boy
Hardened heart
Too tired to trust
Young girl
Eager heart
Too difficult to love
He left a hole in her head
He swept her heart under his bed
And he said

Why am I drinking bottles of beer I do not need?
Why am I using words that I don’t even mean?
Why am I so unkind?

Why do I disguise so much?
Why am I still searching, still searching?

Young boy running with his dusty soul
Moving away from what he knows
Trying to find a soft face that’s kind
But with his heart in chains he may not act in time

Young boy, move closer
Young boy, go to her
Young boy, go kiss her

Why do I love so much?
Why am I still searching? 

Young Boy

Melt Me Down Like Chocolate - single from Louise Latham's album Reclaimed

Melt Me Down Like Chocolate

Saint - single released from Louise Latham's album Reclaimed

Am I not
Good to you
With tenderness and passion?
Am I not
The words on your page
The values of your faith?
Am I not
The keeper of your heart
Held with reference and loyalty?

I’m not a saint
I’m not a saint

Am I not
Patient and kind
Always constant and forgiving?
Am I not
The peaceful dove
Sworn to fly above your offering?
Am I not
The mother you’ve lost
Eternally caring for you?

I’m not a saint
I’m not a saint

Will you try to see my humanity?
Will you try to understand
The imperfections of man?

Am I not
The listener that waits
To unlock your past?
Am I not
The supporter of all
The times you seem to falter?
Am I not
The provider of hope
To dispel all the darkness?

I’m not a saint
I’m not a saint 

Saint

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Gifted Welsh singer-songwriter Louise Latham's evocative debut album Reclaimed was successfully released to critical acclaim.

Since the album's release, Louise's career is gaining substantial momentum in the UK and overseas. Reclaimed is enjoying significant airplay throughout the UK and North America including support on BBC Radio Wales and other regional BBC and community stations. In terms of film soundtracks, Old Soul, Saint & Melt Me Down Like Chocolate have been signed to a British independent film company.

Reclaimed then moved on to become Album of the Month on Haze FM, Canada's largest online radio station and was later listed Top 50 Albums by New Sound Wales in the UK. Commenting on Louise's success BBC Radio Wales presenter Alan Thompson referred to her as being "One of the best Welsh singer songwriters of our time".

Louise, an English Literature graduate from Royal Holloway University of London, took her first step into writing her own songs during her time at university. This resulted in Fatuma, a song championed by award winning songwriter Tommy Sands on his Northern Irish Radio show. The song laid the foundation for a lot of the themes that would inform her writing, personal storytelling, human politics, struggle, honesty, hope, dreams and innocence.

If Louise found an ally in Sands, she found sonic architects in Arno Guveau and Greg Haver, the producers behind Reclaimed. Guveau, who previously worked with Manfred Mann and former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Bob Weston, with his empathic production and cinematic arrangements, manages to accentuate rather than overstate the dark romantic heart of Louise's writing. Haver, an award-winning producer who has worked with Melanie C and The Manic Street Preachers, is known for his diverse production skills and innovative arrangements which resulted in warm and lush arrangements on Reclaimed. "The record has a haunting, dramatic and magical atmosphere complementing the songs themselves beautifully." Louise says.

Reclaimed was finally masterminded by twice Grammy Nominee mixer Jeremy Wheatley. Wheatley has delivered numerous number 1 hits and works with an impressive array of artists including Emeli Sande, Taylor Swift and Duffy to name a few. The result is a sound that branches off in a myriad of wonderful directions such as the country-esque Melt Me Down Like Chocolate, the soaring alt-pop of Erase Me, the atmospherics and quiet majesty of Together Tonight to the minimalist outpouring of emotion of Reclaimed itself.

And then there's Louise's voice - pure, ethereal, intense, profoundly moving. When she talks about touchstones, she mentions the simplicity and economy of Tracy Chapman's compositions, the big quiet of Tori Amos's Boys For The Pele album, and the ambitious scope of Sarah McLachlan's Fumbling Towards Ecstacy.

This is an aural landscape made visible by Reclaimed, an alluring collection whose warmth and humanity is a balm in austere times.

Quotes

'One of the best Welsh singer songwriters of our time'
 Alan Thompson, BBC Radio Wales

'A great singer songwriter. Really, really beautiful.'
Mike Walsh, Head of Music, XFM

'A rare talent with a great voice'
Carl Blackhurst, Eagle Radio

'Louise's virtuoso performances bring something very special to the Bedford every time'
Tony Moore, music promoter

'Louise Latham writes soulful stories and tells them with a gentle yet powerful passion. Listen out'
Tommy Sands, Singer songwriter and winner of the BBC 2 Folk Awards

'Impressive......a lovely acoustic quality to her voice'
Frank Hannessy, BBC Radio Wales

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