★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentTweetShare Lullaby and Good Night Australia's Lenka is a musical enigma. She spent the early part of her career fronting the ephemeral indie band, Decoder Ring, but she broke out in 2008 with her first solo effort and the movie soundtrack and television commercial hit, "The Show," a song that is pop, pop, pop...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-06-20
★★★★★
Despite this being her debut LP, Lenka is far from new to this business of show. Following in the teeny-tiny stiletto clad footprints of Kylie Minogue, she is another Australian small screen siren turned musician. Hardly a radical move, this is a path that has been well trodden over the years of course though most Aussie soap-to-pop stars spend at least some time on Ramsey Street, unlike Lenka who came to mainstream attention in Australia through the TV show 'GP'...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Release Date: April 19th, 2011 Admittedly, prior to Two, the sophomore full-length from the Australian songstress known as Lenka, not many cheerful pop oriented releases had managed to successfully capture my attention and sustain it for a substantial amount of time. Musically she excels in the art of creating quirky, lovable and bright tunes that feature sparkling melodies, propelling choruses and positive, uplifting lyrics that are easily accessible and relatable...
- absolutepunk.net
2011-06-06
★★★★★
Listening to Lenka's self titled debut album without any preconceptions, on opening track 'The Show', Lenka comes across sounding like a 12-year-old girl doing a straight, non-ironic karaoke cover of Regina Spektor. Not that I can imagine many people attempting and actually pulling off karaoke covers of Regina. I subjected Lenka's self-titled album to a pretty harsh test, listening straight through and loud on the car stereo on what would have otherwise been a lovely journey at 7...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
She's Australian, brunette, easy on the eye, and used to be an actress before metamorphosing into a commercial pop artist. No, not Natalie Imbruglia this time, but her compatriot Lenka Kripac shares a very similar backstory.Formerly keyboard player in cult post-rock band Decoder Ring, Lenka has managed to successfully shed all signs of an experimental past. Her debut album is squarely aimed at the lucrative middle of the market...
- www.musicomh.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
If Lenka Kripac is to gain recognition beyond the cluster of fans who know her as the singer/keyboardist of Sydney electro-poppers Decoder Ring, she'll have to set herself apart from fellow breathy-voiced, single-named chanteuses Sia and Jem. Her solo debut doesn't quite achieve that, though it does establish that her inclinations are poppier than theirs. Quite a lot poppier: the two opening tracks are so innocuously chirpy that it takes some willpower to face the rest of the album...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2010-04-02
★★★★★
The little-girl-lost voice behind the Old Navy commercial jingle The Show, 30-something Aussie TV-personality-turned-pop-princess Lenka uses her acting skills to try coming off like an innocent tween while coyly chirping about skipping through the big bad old world over slight variations on a jaunty piano bounce accented by the plink of a glockenspiel. It's an annoyingly cutesy confection that even 12-year-olds may find too corny to stomach...
- nowtoronto.com
2009-11-07
★★★★★
Australian actress and children's TV presenter- turned-singer-songwriter Lenka has written an album which is a canny hybrid of Regina Spektor and Kate Nash. Trading on her reputation with the kids, Lenka's singing persona is child-like and naïve, accompanied by animated videos and adverts for craft workshops on her MySpace page. And this tweeness carries through to the music itself...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2009-07-03
★★★★★
Remember Frente!, the Australian combo responsible for that mid-'90s acoustic cover of New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle"? Lenka does: a few months ago this pint-sized diva from Down Under posted a similarly cutesy rendition of Modest Mouse's "Gravity Rides Everything" to her MySpace page. Now, on her solo debut, she sounds determined to update the super-sunshiny folk pop of Frente!'s Marvin the Album...
- thephoenix.com
2009-06-25
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