Bitter

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Free Music Review: Visionary, no fluff, honest, beautiful, overlooked.
Hit: 5 Stars

The guitar solo was necessary, because Me'Shell follows up with "Satisfy." We fall back into our old ways with the title track, "Bitter." As we all do too often (okay, maybe it's just me), we hold on longer than we should to feelings that are no longer there. Much like "Fool Of Me," Me'Shell has put to words what it feels like to be "Bitter" about something with this somber track.

Seemingly falling into a dream state, the next track is the Jimi Hendrix opus "May This Be Love." A long time Hendrix admirer, Me'Shell even sounds like him in some ways vocally if you listen close enough.

Waking from her dream, "Sincerity" begins. Lapsing back into doubting Love, she holds nothing back in her words. Perhaps finally giving in to this new Love, "Loyalty" begins. Pleading for her new love to mend her broken heart, the music swells, much like the heart does when asking such things.

"Beautiful" is next. The perfect song. "Whisper it in my ear," she says, making you flashback to those times where you've either experienced it, or longed for such a quiet moment with a special someone.

The artistic track of the album is next. Me'Shell's "Wasted Time." A duet with Joe Henry, they bring up doubts about Love again. The track ends perfectly, abruptly, at the moment she suddenly realizes that it's time for it to stop - much like we do when we realize that a relationship is over, or has been over.

Me'Shell ends the record with "Grace," yet another poetic expression of how something feels. This time that feeling is Love.

"Bitter" is a masterpiece, and everyone I've bought the CD for has thanked me for it after listening to it. "Me'Shell who/what?" they'd say before hearing it. Now I'm asked when her next album (which is going to be completely different) is coming out. (Tentatively scheduled for March 12, 2002.)

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