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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
essential cd, November 10, 2005
please listen (on headphones or at full volume) to the hauntingly beautiful voice of an out and proud young lady who articulates the myriad feelings of those who are not usually heard, but these words will echo in the hearts of gay youth across the world.........and wait for the hidden track at the end....you will laugh with delight...!!!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pop music at its best!, November 17, 2005
Beautiful music. Alex Parks has a gorgeous and compelling voice. It's a shame more people in the US don't know about her. Fellow Yanks, you're missing out!
Not "Dance" music or typical party tunes but pop music at its best. The tunes are beautiful; the lyrics are fascinating, thought provoking and too strongly expressive for the songs to be "ambient". Some of the songs seem like overheard conversations or excerpts from someone's diary: wonderful, raw, genuine and familiar.
Recommended if you like Beth Hart or Aimee Mann.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Haunting and passionate - a folk soul dream, October 29, 2005
I love this album and yet I find it hard to articulate why. In some ways it's like trying to describe what's so wonderful about a Nick Drake album... your response to the music is deeply personal and no two people will hear it the same way. Some people will 'get' this multifaceted jewel of an album and love it, some will find it dull.
It's in the folk/pop genre, with an acoustic ambient feel. Overall it's subtle, beautiful and evocative. A lot of the time it's very dreamy, sometimes it's passionate, exciting and almost raw, while the hidden track is camp and sophisticated.
Alex's beautiful voice always has an extraordinary power to move, and here we hear her range - emotional and vocal - has grown enormously since her debut album. The instrumentals are lovely, interesting and flowing. Several songs have guitar tracks that sound almost like running water. The album works its seductive way under your skin. In amongst the folk dreaminess, there are surprising passages of incredibly catchy pop. Meanwhile, the lyrics are astonishingly personal. How many women have written songs about their feelings for a woman lover?
Honesty is a brave, honest and unpretentious piece of work, written and sung from the heart, and feels like a piece of Alex's soul. If you have an open heart and eclectic musical tastes, then buy this album.
Best tracks: Lie, Out of Touch, So Emotional, Lost Without a Name, Adore, Sweeter and Sweeter, Truth or Dare, Moment, Tail and All (hidden track).
Masterpiece of the album: Truth or Dare.
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