Ervin Munir

Pure & Simple is the second album from Norfolk-based singer-songwriter, Ervin Munir.

The songs largely deal with the everyday emotional ups and downs of life but are tinged with a bittersweet edge. Ervin's music takes its roots from a modern folk songwriter base but synthesises this with an indie-pop sensibility, bringing a modernity to the sound completely appropriate to the contemporary focus of the lyrics.

The album opens with 'Break Me', a meditation on a dysfunctional relationship. Munir's almost-stream-of-consciousness delivery of the lyrics seems to embody the outpouring of pent-up frustrations which the words portray. 'My Heart' continues in a similar vein but places itself at the other end of a relationship. It wonders whether this is 'the one' and whether it's worth taking that step beyond the 'friend zone.

'Felixstowe' takes the theme of setting sail for foreign shores as an analogy for how hearts with desires and aspirations pulling in different directions inevitably leads to separation - emotional and physical...

Trevor Raggatt