Recording information: Cutfather Studio, Copenhagen. In the big scheme of things: The Sea is a good album if you like soft, relaxing music, pop rock and ballads.Personnel: Sally Herbert (mandolin, violin) Rick Koster, Alison Dods, Frances Dewar, Julia Singleton, Bruce White (violin). In Melanie C’s career: Nothern Star > The Sea > Beautiful Intentions > This Time > Reason.
It could be one of those songs used in a Grey’s Anatomy episode, with someone about to die/be saved, a lot of slow motion runs through the corridors and Meredith crying dramatically in slow motion as well. A bit meh too.Įnemy is the perfect closing of the album, in which Melanie C goes Adele. It is a nice song but it hasn’t left me with much to say about it. Let There Be Love has a guitar riff that reminds me to Madonna’s Ray Of Life (again, keeping the distances). The next track is Rock Me, which I’ve already talked about. There’s a lot of backing vocals in this song, at some point they almost swallow Melanie’s voice. This song is a bit soulful and the melody progression almost sounds like Feeling Good. Get Out of Here showcases Melanie C’s best vocals. I suddenly don’t know what’s happening because these two are probably the strongest tracks on the album and they are put together, they are both ballads and they are both quite emotional, I feel like there’s too many feelings floating around right now. The piano and the violins again are lovely.ĭrown is also a very good ballad. At first when I heard the preview I thought it sounded a bit like California King Bed, and I still think the chord progression is similar but the songs don’t really have much in common. Now here comes one of the best of the album, and possibly of Melanie C’s career. Melanie is not screaming, she’s kind of whining. Lyrically speaking it could have been on that album, but instrumentally speaking it isn’t as strong. It is apparently the second UK single, and I approve.Īll About You has the same sort of vibe that was recurrent in Beautiful Intentions – You Suck A Lot And You Lost Me And I Am Lactating With Rage. It is quite strong and very good remixes could come from this. With this song, we go back to bitter Melanie, and we abandon the guitars and the orchestra, embracing electronic beats and synths. This song could have been in Northern Star and it could have been a single, released instead of If I Were Me (dreadful lyric alert: I can’t live without my phone but you don’t even have a home. The guitar on it is lovely, her voice is gentle and there are violins playing in the background. It is not as good as First Day of My Life though, and maybe it is a bit boring, it lacks epic (note my efforts to be unbiased here). It is actually a bit First Day of My Life, in a sort of inducing-happy-feelings kind of song. Literally the best remix Melanie C has ever had since the Hex Hector remix of I Turn To You and we all know that was a loooong time ago.īeautiful Mind is no Beautiful Intentions. Back when I reviewed it, I said it was quite like Rock Me, which is true, but it has something Rock Me lacks: the 7th Heaven remix. I really haven’t felt like skipping any of it just yet. This song is maybe not as good as The Sea is, but it’s also good. Weak is sort of a bitter ballad, which seems to be what Melanie does best.
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The instrumentation in this album is very rich, full of nuances. When Weak starts it reminds me to Florence & The Machine and I think it’s because of the orchestra again. If I tried to be impartial I would say this song is quite good. The song instrumental arrangement is powerful, sort of orchestral, kind of reminds me to Nothern Star. With the waves, strong tambours, also in crescendo. The track opener, titled The Sea, just like the album, starts with the crescendo sound of waves. The UK album version and the German version have different tracklisting order, but I am going with the UK version as it runs smoother.
That’s about how unbiased I am able to get where Melanie C is concerned. This Time has a few cute tracks, maybe? Beautiful Intentions is better but lacks something, and Northern Star is very good. Melanie C has released a new album, and she is a fifth of the Spice Girls, yes, but her second album, Reason, was mediocre. I love it, I love them, so the deal is done for me, and it is a valid deal. It has reached a point where I can’t tell if their music is 90s trash or a masterpiece, and I frankly couldn’t care less – the beauty of it lies in the eye (ear?) of the beholder. It is very easy to write a review on an artist you like, but it isn’t easy to be impartial.
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