Luwten - Draft
If you choose an unusual name it will stick with you throughout your career, as Amsterdam-based songwriter Tessa Douwstra is finding out.
However, if you’re clever about it, it can work in your favour. The literal meaning of Luwten is ‘a place without wind’, which reflects her second album more concisely than most reviews (including this one) will. There is no tumult or chaos within; Draft is a calm and ordered piece of work.
The looped staccato vocal clip which opens the album nags away throughout ‘The Thought Of You’, as if to reflect the anxiety and increased heart rate when a certain someone embeds themselves in your psyche.