Andra Day’s debut album has been circling around the tops of the charts for quite some time now, and it comes as no surprise why the singer is also a critic’s favorite. She is a thirty one year old educated female musician who energizes her inspiration from the school of beautiful, haunted and sad love departures that Billie Holliday, Amy Winehouse and Adele are a part of.
Andra loves soul, rhythm, blues and jazz. She adores singing about the tortures of love. Occasionally, she sings about how her ruminations are self-destructive. This is the album of drama queen who doesn’t know what the average is. She identifies love as passion. Rationality is on the 50th place when it comes to milestones of love.
In a song Honey Or Fire, she paraphrases Holliday’s phrase All Or Nothing At All, and this is what characterizes her character the most. In her vocal interpretation, she combines vocal technique with acting talent. Only Love resembles Amy Winehouse, while Forever Mine sounds like The Supremes after a blackout.
Goodbye Goodnight is 60s driven tune, dedicated to an exuberant, grand finale of a love relationship. Only diva can sing about the end of relationship in such a glorious manner.
Central theme of the album is Rise Up, probably the most famous track from the record. It serves as a motivational message to her partner who is about to give up on everything in his life.
I guess I have found my album for the end of the summer. Did you?
