Sharleen Spiteri - Melody
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Free Music Notes for Melody
Free Music Review: Spiteri Delivers
Hit: 4 Stars
Melody is a beautiful album from Scottish soulstress 'Sharleen Spiteri'. She fuses soul with pop with ease and the sultry soothness of her voice can warm even the hardest of hearts. My favourite tracks are 'All The Times I Cried', where she dallies with McAlmont&Butler and 'Stop, I Don't Love You Anymore'. This collection, I believe, will stand the test of time and gets better with each listen. You can feel it in her delivery that she enjoyed making this album. Move over Texas, Sharleen is in the house.Free Music Review: Very interesting
Hit: 4 Stars
Sharleen Spiteri is a very interesting young artist. This CD is about failed relationships. The theme of "What did I do wrong" is treated like an examination of the artists feelings, rather than of her worth. Her voice and delivery are excellent, though the CD could use more variety stylistically.Free Music Review: Melody
Hit: 4 Stars
I only found out about Sharleen from an appearance on The Graham Norton Show. She has a wonderful, powerful, yet vulnerable sound to her voice. Very reminiscent of the 60's female vocalists of England and France. If you enjoy that sound, I highly recommend "Melody" and her works with Texas.Free Music Review: Texas (band) Frontwoman.
Hit: 3 Stars
I first heard of Sharleen Spiteri when I purchased a song called "In Our Lifetime" while she was still a part of the scottish band "Texas". I loved that song, After searching for a solo artist since 1999 I found out in 2009 (10 years later) the song was by a band called "Texas" and the lead singer is Sharleen Spiteri. Like WOW, Right?
I sampled the bands entire catalog finding nothing else that sounded anything like "In Our Lifetime", Probably because "In Our Lifetime" was written and produced long after the bands arrival. By this time they were most likely trying NEW things and doing minor crossovers. Which is fine, I just came late and thought the "different material" was the bands original style and sound.
I soon discovered the album "Melody", A solo project from the lead band member "Shareleen, of course". I figured I'd just take a risk and purchase the album, Since most artists that decide to go solo tend to do things that are nothing like what they were doing with the band. Not that the band was no good to begin with, I just figured maybe this would be more on the lines of "Once In A Lifetime". Could this be what I was looking for?
"Melody" is inspired by 50's and 60's rythyms, "I'm into that". The vocals on this album are mediocre, I like the style and sound of the music on the album, However I'm not blown away by it.
"I'm Going To Haunt You" is the song that blew me away, It's actually a cover. I saw her perform this song Live, She even crossfaded Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Were Made For Walking" Into the end of the song while performing. It's also strange and fantastic that this song reminds me of one of Nancy Sinatra's latest songs "Barricades And Brickwalls". I love the melody and spooky,haunting sound of it. It's semi-dark yet enchanting and still fun to listen to!
many times throughout your listening, Sharleen sounds identical to the great Lisa Stansfield, I'm reminded of Lisa everytime I get in the groove of this album. Which is a good thing., I love Lisa!
While I'm not blown away by this release at all I can still see myself listening to this album and possibly getting attatched after some growing with it.
Free Music Review: Disappointing
Hit: 3 Stars
For this she has given up Texas? Too bad. Texas shone brightly, this work blends into the aural background. It's not awful, it's just not particularly good. Ms. Spiteri's strong voice is wasted here on these Dusty Springfield wanna-be tunes. Save the time you would have spent listening to this and play "Dusty in Memphis" or "Brand New Me" instead. Guaranteed, you'll have a better time.