| Category | Rating |
|---|---|
| Track Structure | 8 |
| Interest | 7 |
| Melody | 7 |
| Performance | 7 |
| Lyrics | 9 |
| Enjoyment | 8 |
| Recording Quality | 6 |
| Commercial Appeal | 7 |
| Overall | 7.4 |
The Answer By Ro.
Ro makes music in the chosen genres of Indie, Jazz and Dance (and possibly more) - all three styles are covered nicely in the three songs available from her page here at mp3unsigned.
This track is a slightly indie sounding affair, for sure, it's downbeat, but with an uplifting message.
Is it a message that the world is actually hearing and taking notice of at the moment?
Unless enough people push the message forwards that this song holds, I'm of the opinion that love will never really stand a chance out there.
The lyrics here are of a rather good quality, sensitively written, dealing with the more negative aspects of modern life, with a constant underlying message - Offering Love as the answer to our problems, be they famine, war, politics, religious fanaticism or violence.
I'm seriously not doing this review to muse on what's happening out there in the real, dusty, blood-spattered world, but this song keeps drawing me back.
Musically, the whole track works for the subject matter, creating a Lo-Fi, slow burning, laid back, yet menacing atmosphere that drips into your mind almost forcibly.
At times, the music does start to feel a little "loopy" in it's nature, but the vocals and lyrical content pull it through this.
The vocals that Ro offer here are a solid enough performance, yet they could do with bringing forwards quite a lot, help them to climb up from the music. Maybe it's just me with hearing words, but I get the problem of quiet vocals quite a lot with unsigned artists - Myself included. Guilty as charged. Hang Me Now.
The only little niggle with the vocals is how the words are, how do I put it... Pronounced.
That may be the wrong word, but there's a certain clean style of delivery to these lyrics and, in my honest, open opinion, a song like this deserves a lot more emotion, a rawer style of vocals to match the rawness of the message and the rawness of the music.
Ro has a good voice, I can tell and I think it could shine a lot more with a change of style for a song like this.
All in all, a very satisfying listen, well written and performed, with a background message of love that is prevented from getting too cloying by the initial presentation of quite dark subject matters.
A song I would like to hear again when in it's finished state, as it states on the Artist's Page, a final mix and mastering is yet to be completed...
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