Unbelievable talent. She has a sound that is completely her own. Every track is interesting and inviting is for nothing else but the mood she creates with that junglefunkyamericana vibe she got going on--that is not only way I can describe it and it works and changes and transforms itself with every track.
Yet, very few of the tracks stands out as gripping. Yes, it is interesting toUnbelievable talent. She has a sound that is completely her own. Every track is interesting and inviting is for nothing else but the mood she creates with that junglefunkyamericana vibe she got going on--that is not only way I can describe it and it works and changes and transforms itself with every track.
Yet, very few of the tracks stands out as gripping. Yes, it is interesting to listen to and I did not regret working through the album one bit. But, it seems like she sets the mood and comes out flat both in the lyrics and the performances. It's fine if you want to sing mid to low tempo song but the lyrics has got to be strong and in most of the track they are not. Not that her topics are boring, its just not deep enough--exposed enough. You can still have a great song from average to ok lyrics, but she has to sell the words with a powerful performances. She manage to do this on a few tracks.
"Four years of chances" and the highlight of the album for me and it is a brilliant exhibition of just how purely talented she is, although she might not have the most powerful voice--there is so much honesty and soul in her voice that is more important than how many pitches you can throw (see what I did there).
Yet, fours year of chances also expose her greatest weakness right now I think, and that is, letting us deeper into her so she does not sound like just another girl singing about heartbreak and new love. Her sound will ensure that she never sounds like anyone but her and the soul in her voice let us know that she really believes in not only her song but her music. Which is why the first track is kind of evidence off everything that I have been trying to say: That is, the song talks about all she wants to do is getting her dad's farm back, and get her mama' back from wine (I think that's what it said). That may all be true, but my question the whole time was what's in it for her and why music. There are a million other ways to make money. She obviously wants to be a great musician, and not mentioning that as one of her reasons she make music once again reduces that song so basically having the same theme as Sugarland's "baby girl" and It seems she wanted to say a whole lot more than that.
bottom line I'm probably going to be a fan for life. There are few people in this world that have the skill and the drive and the talent to produce LONG lasting album--I think once she opens us to go deeper into her world of ideas---she already has the talent to do just that.
I'm excited about Margo Price… Expand
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