Seeker Lover Keeper- Seeker Lover Keeper

Super groups are a strange idea at the best of times. Often disparate giants of the music industry, each accomplished in their own rights, come together to create something new. Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but more often than not despite being able to see what they were going for you end up wishing that everyone had just stayed at their day job. Having said that, I can understand how it happens. People hear somebody or something that inspires them, and they end up working together.

The baffling thing about Seeker Lover Keeper, a super group of Australian female singer songwriters, is that the three individuals involved (Sarah Blasko, Holly Throsby, and Sally Seltmann) all sound so fundamentally similar that for most of the album it's difficult to tell which of them is singing. Fortunately though there's still somehow some magic at play. Perhaps because they all do essentially the same thing they each wanted to really prove to the others that they could do it well.

Seeker Lover Keeper (which sounds just close enough to 'seek her love her keep her' that it's unlikely to be by accident) is not going to surprise any fans of the three talented artists involved. It's a sweet gentle folksy pop record, with some lovely harmonies. Blasko's otherworldliness, Throsby's sweetness, and Seltmann's yearning (which as previously mentioned do all sound extremely similar) create some truly wonderful songs.

Perhaps the oddest thing about this supergroup is that despite the collaboration each song is only written by one member of the trio. They sing each other's songs, and their own, but they didn't write any of the songs together. Some of these songs may not even have been written for the project and may have just been sitting on the respective shelves, waiting for the right opportunity.

I think this is a really good album, it's funny, it's smart, and it's sweet, but in my mind it's no different to just having a new Sarah Blasko album in my collection (or for that matter a new album by either of the other two ladies).