Album Review: The Transatlantics - Find My Way Home

Funk and blues troupe The Transatlantics aren't exactly what you'd expect to find in South Australia, or in this decade for that matter, but here they are with their second album Find My Way Home – and boy does it pack a punch. They've got everything but the kitchen sink; a ten-piece collective featuring three singers, drums, bass guitars and brass, producing some really soulful, sexy music.

Right from the start with track Did I Call, lead singer Tara Lynch lures you in with her powerfully sultry voice, you can't fight it and why would you want to? Then The Harm You've Done brings the rhythm and blues, the all-girl back-up vocals smack of The Supremes and Lynch hitting those high notes is divine. A Man Like That is Motown through and through; it's really catchy and the brass (they've got a sax, trumpet and trombone) is really impressive. The lyrics sum this one up perfectly: “Pick me up, drop me down, spin me 'round, leave me hanging for more.”

Title track Find My Way Home is superb, it captures the album as a whole. It's so passionate, and when Lynch cries out “I was lost in the snow and the rain, just to be by your side” with the girls' “oohs” calling out from the background, you can feel it in your bones. Similarly, later track I'm Losing You is so forlorn it hits you right in the pit of your stomach, you can't stop listening. And you shouldn't.

It's really refreshing to hear something different, but also so familiar. Find My Way Home is a pleasure to listen to from start to finish. These are songs to be relished and danced to with your arms wrapped tight around another.