One to watch: Rachael Lavelle | Pop and rock
Rachael Lavelle’s debut album, Big Dreams, arrived last November. With dusky vocals gliding over undulating electronics and doleful, ruminative woodwind – the clarinet is particularly striking – it’s perhaps unsurprising to learn that she still works part-time as a funeral singer in her home town of Dublin.Lavelle’s lyrics consider the strange world of digital algorithms and online optimisation. Wry lines such as My Simple Pleasures’s “Spotted, male, liberal, spiritual, Sagittarius” nod to the mundanity of dating apps.…