Melissa
Say Hello
Monday 20th of August 2007
With an effortless, smooth vocal, this jazz meets showtime record contains an abundance of classy piano too.
'Who Knows' harks back to the heroines of 70s folk-pop whereas 'Say Hello' sounds more like a song from a jazzy-musical. 'Nothing Changes' has the flavour of an eighties throbber, albeit with an easy listening syncopated drum beat flowering things up.
The strangest element to Melissa's sound is that, while there's a lot going on, it's quite a quiet record. The vocal doesn't need to demonstrate a mass of projection and that wouldn't work for these songs anyway. It's all very neat and tidy and the songs are all the more classy for this unusual treatment.
This is one of those records that calls out for the word 'accomplished' and I'm not about to deny the request.
Author: Steve
Label: Self-Released
Found in: Record Reviews
Official Rating
We rated this record 3.5 out of 5.