Katie Melua - Ketevan (31/03/2014)
Ever since 2003's debut album Call off the Search, Katie Melua has managed to deliver album after album of beautifully orchestrated blues pop with some aspects of jazz and folk-pop added on for good measure. It might be a relatively straight forward recipe that has been followed almost to the letter over her six studio efforts, however she does that musical blend so well that it's hardly necessary to ask for anything else. Y
ou know what you get with Melua and in a musical landscape where every band seems deadset on being impossible to place in a genre, it's always refreshing to see artists that are content and confident enough with their piece of the musical map to simply stay there.
With Ketevan, the follow-up to 2012's Secret Sounds, Melua further cements her place in the musical landscape of blues pop, introducing eleven new tracks that take the listener on a mellow journey through songs dealing with heartache, loss and love. Amazingly, the album is without a major flaw. While those that don't enjoy the type of music delivered by Katie Melua in the past still won't find anything to latch onto, fans of her past efforts or fans of her musical equals like Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and alike, will find eleven tracks that deliver a remarkably strong album.
Kris Solberg
ou know what you get with Melua and in a musical landscape where every band seems deadset on being impossible to place in a genre, it's always refreshing to see artists that are content and confident enough with their piece of the musical map to simply stay there.
With Ketevan, the follow-up to 2012's Secret Sounds, Melua further cements her place in the musical landscape of blues pop, introducing eleven new tracks that take the listener on a mellow journey through songs dealing with heartache, loss and love. Amazingly, the album is without a major flaw. While those that don't enjoy the type of music delivered by Katie Melua in the past still won't find anything to latch onto, fans of her past efforts or fans of her musical equals like Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and alike, will find eleven tracks that deliver a remarkably strong album.
Kris Solberg