Integrity Music
Release Date: August 21st 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Elias Dummer – The Rest, Vol. 1 EP (iTunes/Amazon mp3)
Integrity Music
Release Date: August 21st 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Elias Dummer – The Rest, Vol. 1 EP (iTunes/Amazon mp3)
If I am being completely honest, this upcoming blog post would have to be the one, out of all the 60 (61st currently right now) I have undertaken, where I’ve been literally worried and scared to do. I know I shouldn’t really be worried, because this post is just one mere man’s opinion, but in all honesty, I just can’t help it. Maybe it’s because Adele is one of the most popular British icons in British music history, and she has one of the most emotive, poignant and prolific voices ever, and therefore whatever I say won’t ever be enough to say about one of the 21st century’s most impactful and articulate singer-songwriters this generation have ever seen. Or maybe it’s just nerves, and this blog post is simultaneously the one where I’m prepared to a point, but also neither prepared at all, all at the same time. Regardless, this blog post about Adele would have to be, like U2, the one where people would automatically slot into their list of influential artists- if people even had lists nowadays. Across every person’s musical preferences, enjoyable melodies, and genres that they gravitate towards over the years, one cannot deny the importance, influence and impact Adele has had across her 3 albums, on music history. This blog post quite possibly can be the shortest blog yet that I’ve ever written (what can be said that hasn’t been said already by publications and news articles online from songfacts, songmeanings and medium.com, to NPR, Rollingstone and video interview on the youtube site Skavlan), but also simultaneously one of the most heartfelt, emotive and poignant that has ever been written within my 1 and a half year musical journey from February 2019 till now. For we all know Adele’s vocals can pierce depths of our hearts that only certain people can go- for that is why her albums are such relatable for people, and her down-to-earth atmosphere she portrays in video interviews is certainly contagious and a joy to watch. We are reminded through Adele’s career that these people we call musicians (that we often place on a pedestal) are in fact humans like me and you. They have faults, they’re not some super-people that we often idolise and believe they can do no wrong. It is in these moments of vulnerability in interviews that we see the transparency of these artists, and we respect these people whose music we listen to, all the more.
Continue reading MOMENTOUS MONDAYS: INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF ALL TIME – WEEK 61: ADELE
Sony Music Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd
Release Date: August 21st 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Delta Goodrem – Back in 84 – Single (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Integrity Music
Release Date: August 21st 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
David Leonard – Open House Sessions EP (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Centricity Music
Release Date: August 7th 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Jason Gray – Glory Days (Single) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Provident Label Group
Release Date: August 7th 2020
Reviewed by: Jonathan Andre
Lydia Laird – Lydia Laird (EP) (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
This upcoming band that I’m about to discuss was a band that I initially didn’t think I’d touch with a ten-foot pole, nor did I even have a good preconception on how this band actually was. You know when you sit down to write about something (or in the case of my blogs over the last year or so, someones), you come to the table with assumptions of what you’re about to write about, things you’ve believed over time, things you’ve heard from other people, and once you go through the musical journey yourself and listen to the artist in its entirety through all their songs and start to see the music that they really make, that what they create and stand for is so much different than what you were even led to believe? Maybe these sentences just aforementioned mean nothing to you, and now you’re just thinking that I am some over-analysing person who likes to over-think things. And that’s ok if you think that. But I’ve been on a journey of late, a good one. My eyes have been open to the wonderful music of artists gone by, from Josh Groban, Bryan Adams, Sara Bareilles and Lady A, to Lecrae, Hanson, John Mayer and Colbie Caillat, to name a few, and in each of these cases, I came into it with a certain idea in my head of what I thought that particular artist was going to be, and that wasn’t what it was…in a very, very good way. As I enter into my 60th blog of this series, discussing rock band Goo Goo Dolls, I came into it in a similar way- assuming that the band was only influential and impactful for their chart-topping hit ‘Iris’ and nothing else. Boy was I mistaken, in a way that I can say now that I was glad that I was.
Continue reading MOMENTOUS MONDAYS: INFLUENTIAL ARTISTS OF ALL TIME – WEEK 60: GOO GOO DOLLS
The Classic Christmas Album (2013 Re-release of the 1998 album White Christmas)
Label: Sony Music Entertainment
Release Date: October 8th 2013 (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Continue reading Mini-Review: Martina McBride – The Classic Christmas Album
Christmas Offerings
Label: Essential Records
Release Date: October 10th 2006 (Amazon mp3/iTunes)
Continue reading Mini-Review: Third Day – Christmas Offerings