Westlife - Allow Us to Be Frank
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Music CD Cover Artist: Westlife Edition: Music CD Format: Import CD Release Date: 2004-11-15 Music Label: Sony Bmg Europe Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Allow Us to Be Frank Album
Free Music Review: hits and misses
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a fun album, literally. It's pretty obvious the guys are having a good time singing a number of the all time big band standards. They're trying to emulate the sound of the fifties rat pack, sinatra, davis jr., martin and the likes, and surprisingly they almost pull it off.
They are assisted by a very tight and confident orchestra, who fortunately stick to the classic arrangement style of the fifties. Well produced and very well arranged.
The first 5 songs are great. The boys handle the songs and the arrangements well, but when it goes wrong it goes very wrong. While 'come fly with me' is already just so-so, Mack the Knife is downright terrible. The brawn presented in the singing is forced, the timing is off and it gets very close to bad karaoke style performance. San Franciso and Summer Wind are very good again, but the mess of Clementine is almost unforgivable. Again they mess up in an up-tempo song, the opening lines are awful, forced, terrible phrasing and timing, and absolutely no feeling for improvisation. They just try too hard, and lack the feeling for letting the song and arrangement lead them in the performance.
However, the next track 'When I fall in love' is absolutely majestic. Again, mostly due to a brilliant orchestral arrangement and performance, but also beautifully sung. There are probably hundreds of renditions of this song, but this one is absolutely one of the best I've heard in a long long time. This track alone already makes this a 4-star album.
The finish, That's Life, makes sense as a closer for the album but is a bit of an anti-climax. It's ok, but doesn't follow 'If I fall...' too well and kind of ends the album with a whimper.
All in all a very nice first effort for Westlife in this genre, and although a bit unbalanced definitely worth buying.