Alice Peacock – Who I Am (Peacock Music).
Singer-songwriter Alice Peacock presents fourteen original tracks on this, her third album. First known in the UK through touring with Lucy Kaplansky, she has gone from strength to strength with each album release and for this one she has returned to her own independent label. She believes that this gives her more freedom and time to develop. Opening with Different From The Rest she tries to prove this last statement to be true. This is piano-led, as is the rest of the album, and has American popular music stamped all over it. It’s good middle of the road stuff but it doesn’t quite live up to its name. Baby Come Back is sedate and not particularly exciting and it’s not until Here I Go Again that things start to improve. On this, she is vocally very good and although the music remains gentle it is starting to stir. I can’t say a bad word about it but it just needs that little something extra. Time is a slow jazz-based, Janis Ian type of song that is very relaxing and shows her to be an excellent songwriter. Taught Me Well builds up into a very good song and this is where Alice Peacock shines – the construction of her songs is exemplary. The problem is that she shares a genre with a number of singers who are of the same quality. Jon Bon Jovi would be proud of the rock ballad, Anyone But Me but she spoils it by following with the weak Runaway Day.
Love is a sultry acoustic based offering with Beatles-esque strings in the background and Only A Memory is reflective and airy with a lovely chorus. Her problem seems to be consistency and that is shown on I’m Still Here. This is pleasant enough but there’s nothing different and the follow up, Sunflower is another of the weak tracks. The album is starting to peter out and nice is about the only word I can use for Finding My Way. The title track does redeem things a little as Alice puts a little grit into her vocal and lets it rip. She does have a knack of writing a catchy chorus and this is an excellent example. There are tinges of New Country on If You Could Only See Your Eyes and this builds up very well. This could be another one that could make an impact in the AOR field.
Overall, this is a better than average album from an artist who has the song writing capabilities to make it in the very busy field in which she has chosen to pitch her tent.
http://www.alicepeacock.com/
David Blue.
Singer-songwriter Alice Peacock presents fourteen original tracks on this, her third album. First known in the UK through touring with Lucy Kaplansky, she has gone from strength to strength with each album release and for this one she has returned to her own independent label. She believes that this gives her more freedom and time to develop. Opening with Different From The Rest she tries to prove this last statement to be true. This is piano-led, as is the rest of the album, and has American popular music stamped all over it. It’s good middle of the road stuff but it doesn’t quite live up to its name. Baby Come Back is sedate and not particularly exciting and it’s not until Here I Go Again that things start to improve. On this, she is vocally very good and although the music remains gentle it is starting to stir. I can’t say a bad word about it but it just needs that little something extra. Time is a slow jazz-based, Janis Ian type of song that is very relaxing and shows her to be an excellent songwriter. Taught Me Well builds up into a very good song and this is where Alice Peacock shines – the construction of her songs is exemplary. The problem is that she shares a genre with a number of singers who are of the same quality. Jon Bon Jovi would be proud of the rock ballad, Anyone But Me but she spoils it by following with the weak Runaway Day.
Love is a sultry acoustic based offering with Beatles-esque strings in the background and Only A Memory is reflective and airy with a lovely chorus. Her problem seems to be consistency and that is shown on I’m Still Here. This is pleasant enough but there’s nothing different and the follow up, Sunflower is another of the weak tracks. The album is starting to peter out and nice is about the only word I can use for Finding My Way. The title track does redeem things a little as Alice puts a little grit into her vocal and lets it rip. She does have a knack of writing a catchy chorus and this is an excellent example. There are tinges of New Country on If You Could Only See Your Eyes and this builds up very well. This could be another one that could make an impact in the AOR field.
Overall, this is a better than average album from an artist who has the song writing capabilities to make it in the very busy field in which she has chosen to pitch her tent.
http://www.alicepeacock.com/
David Blue.
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