Исполнитель: Alexandra Burke Название диска: The Truth Is Лейбл: Decca Страна: UK Жанр: Pop Год выпуска: 2018 Количество треков: 11 Формат: MP3 Качество: 320 kbps Время звучания: 00:37:47 Размер файла: 105,72 МБ
Треклист:
01. All The Things 02. Shadow 03. The Truth Is 04. In The Rain 05. Say We'll Meet Again - Alexandra Burke, Ronan Keating 06. Summer 07. Maybe It's Love 08. All I Need 09. Believe 10. Worth Holding Onto 11. Without You
Despite being among the most statistically successful X Factor winners, in many ways, Alexandra Burke’s career has never really got off the ground.
Burke has spent the decade since her talent-show triumph creatively confused (she admitted disliking Hallelujah, the Leonard Cohen song she covered as her winner’s single, and the track with which she is most commonly associated, while her subsequent output has featured some unduly painful dance-pop) and mired in record label woe. This state of affairs has delayed her third album by five years. Now, however, a fresh deal means the singer is taking a break from her other job as a musical theatre leading lady (and a dancer – she got to last year’s Strictly Come Dancing final) and having another stab at pop stardom. The title suggests Burke is finally putting her authentic self on record – if so, her true artistic spirit seems to be located somewhere between the West End stage and the kind of abrasive, minimal pop that has been squatting in the charts since 2015.
Though the Ronan Keating duet, Say We’ll Meet Again, is the most Andrew Lloyd Webber things get, schmaltzy, big-lunged ballads with swelling strings form the album’s bedrock, tempered at various points by harsh percussion, distorted vocal samples and even a Bob Marley tribute. Unfortunately, the tunes are robust rather than riveting and lyrically myopic, focusing solely on the generic thrills of a nascent relationship, often, for some reason, through the prism of weather-based imagery. While Burke’s voice remains both luscious and powerful, as soul-baring statements go, The Truth Is isn’t particularly profound stuff.
