Rating: 3/5
Review:
OK but nothing special
Words We Mean is OK, but I’m afraid I don’t think it’s anything
very special. There have been some terrific albums by female trios
recently, most notably Applewood Road and I’m With Her, but this
isn’t really in the same league.
The songs are
pleasant enough, but the same musical tropes appear an awful lot, to
the point when I began to think “modulation to the relative minor
coming up...” and it invariably did. Similarly, the lyrics are
perfectly OK but not that inspiring, with an awful lot of repetition
and by the time I got to four identical repetitions of “Oh-oh-oh-oh”
at toward the end of the title track it began to get a bit much.
In fairness, the
singing and harmonies are good and the relatively straightforward
instrumental work is fine as far as it goes, but it’s all pretty
similar throughout and a bit more variety would have helped a lot.
There’s nothing wrong with the album and it has its moments, but I
don’t think it adds up to all that much in the end.
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