Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life
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Artist: Amy MacdonaldEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-08-19
Music Label: Decca U.S.
Soundtracks:
- Mr. Rock & Roll
- This Is The Life
- Poison Prince
- Youth Of Today
- Run
- Let's Start A Band
- Barrowland Ballroom
- L.A.
- A Wish For Something More
- Footballer's Wife
- This is the Life (Acoustic Amazon Exclusive MP3 track)
Music reviews of This Is The Life
Music Review: Bring the coffee house home
Rating: 4 Stars
I would describe her voice as a mix between Natalie Merchant & The Cranberries. Every now and again it reminded me of a calmer Alanis Morissette.
It's bright and very instrumental. The CD begins with a song that sounds like waking up in the morning and ends beautifully with a sign off song "The Road to Home."
Very folk, inspirational, and you can't help but tap your toes to every song. It makes me think of the music you hear in Starbucks while drinking your coffee and chatting with your friends.
My only complaint is that all the songs sound a bit alike and the lyrics are a little difficult at times to recognize. Overall I enjoyed the Cd.
Description of This Is The Life
Amy MacDonald is that proverbial old head on young shoulders, a Scottish singer-songwriter who, despite her tender 19 years, writes songs with the grace, wisdom, and proficiency of one with a score more on the clock. As influenced by the Libertines as by any venerable old folk hand, the eleven songs on This Is the Life combine a traditional, acoustic folk-rock sound with a youthful spirit and self-assured lyrics that veer between the observational and the confessional. "Poison Prince" is a jagged guitar strut dedicated to some Doherty-like bad boy, a song every bit as pathos-laden as the Libertines at their doomed, romantic best with a closing treatise to find "An upbeat song/So we can dance the night away," while "Mr. Rock & Roll" begins as a wryly withering jibe at some perennial party animals, but by the chorus has softened into a subtle, touching tale of human coupling. MacDonald's age doesn't seem to have been an impediment--"Youth of Today," reportedly written when she was 15, is one of the better tracks here, while "Footballer's Wife" is a clear-headed attack on vapid Barbie-doll celebrity that suggests this girl is very much on the right track. "Rolling Stone, here I come, watch out everyone/I'm singing my song," she sings on "Let's Start a Band." Let that be a warning to you. --Louis PattisonAmy MacDonald Photos
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