Holly Brook - Like Blood Like Honey
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Artist: Holly BrookEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Running Time: 46 unknown-units
Published: 2006-06-06
CD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Giving It Up For You
- Wanted
- What I Wouldn't Give
- Like Blood Like Honey
- Again & Again
- Curious
- Saturdays
- Heavy
- Still Love
- All Will Be Forgotten
- Cellar Door
Music reviews of Like Blood Like Honey
Music Review: Tori/Sarah Cocktail!
Rating: 4 Stars
A great, emotional, refreshing album. Holly is an accomplished instrumentalist (piano, dulcimer, guitar) and singer-songwriter. My only criticism of this album is that it sounds as if Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan and Joni Mitchell got thrown in a music-blender, but not quite blended enough, because one song will sound like Sarah McLachlan and the next one like Tori Amos and so on. It's noticeable that the most derivative songs are written by Holly herself and that the ones that come closest to having a unique sound are ones that she co-writes. Having said that, it is a great album, it just hasn't got enough of her own sound, despite showing real emotional and musical maturity.
Giving It Up For You - 4 Stars. This song is clearly radio-bound and it's a great song, despite obvious influences (Tori Amos). It's a strange choice to begin the album because the beginning of it sounds just like 'Live To Tell' by Madonna. This song doesn't display the same emotional maturity as the rest of the album and this is shown in over dramatic lyrics like "I take a lot of medicine I don't really need". But it's a great song and I'd give it 5 stars if it didn't have such a Tori Amos feel to it.
Wanted - 5 Stars. This one should be all over your radio anytime soon. Great song!
What I Wouldn't Give - 5 Stars. Far and away the best song on the album. The song begins with the most beautiful piano and voice and builds into a gorgeous refrain:
What I wouldn't give just to forget
So I can remember how to live again
This song has such great words. How can you not love the poetry of describing herself feeling "dissonant and distracted"?
Like Blood Like Honey - 4 Stars. A beautiful, simple song that highlights Hollys voice and guitar playing. One of my favorite songs on the album.
Curious - 4.5 Stars. This one was written solely by Holly and it is fantastic. Flawed, yes, but for that fantastic hook you can forgive anything. It starts out sounding very much like Sarah McLachlan's 'Do What You Have To Do' from the album Surfacing but once the hook kicks in... Wow. She is definitely earning her label of 'the new Sarah McLachlan' here. There are some points in the song where the melody seems to lose the plot. A flawed jewel, ending with the emotive line "there are too many unanswered questions that I hold on to... like You".
Saturdays - 4 Stars. This is one of the 'Tori Amos' sounding songs. It starts with a mischievous, jumping rhythm with Holly indulging her slightly drama queen tendencies ("time to kill, take a pill..."). Again, you have to forgive it because of the melodies that come later for "Stop pushing all your tragedies away". It has a beautiful melody in the middle that I wish was repeated in the song.
Again And Again - 4 Stars. If 'Curious' is the most Sarah McLachlan styled song on the album, this one is the most obvious Tori Amos sounding song, but a great song nonetheless.
Heavy - 2 Stars. This song is very much like Sarah McLachlan given a slightly jazzy makeover but with a shot of Tori Amos thrown in for good measure.
Still Love - 2 Stars. This song is very much like Sarah McLachlan given a slightly jazzy makeover - but hold the shot of Tori Amos this time.
All Will Be Forgotten - 3 Stars. This song is moody, reflective and melodic and also has some of the best 'no expense spared' production that makes this album stand out. Holly doesn't yet seem to realize her musical maturity and this is shown through lyrics like "little things like these are good to keep my silly mind from wandering".
Cellar Door - 3 Stars. This song draws heavily on the chords and melodies of Joni Mitchell, starting with smoky, threatening jazz-influenced piano and vocals and building up to a more mainstream rock ending.
Description of Like Blood Like Honey
Red-haired, 20-year-old singer-songwriter Holly Brook has caused a Sarah McLachlan-Tori Amos sensation with her vocals on Fort Minor?s "Where?d You Go"?the most added Top 40 Mainstream track this spring. A la Dido?s appearance on an Eminem hit that launched her platinum career, everyone is curious: "Who is that amazing voice?" Meet Holly Brook. Listen to her debut album, Like Blood Like Honey. Then you?ll know.A lot of roads lead to Holly Brook (the singer, not a picnic destination). There's the hip-hop path, on which plenty of next-big-thing predictors got to know her through her collaboration with Fort Minor on The Rising Tide (her haunting chorus on "Where'd You Go" became an instant hit). Then there's the TV path, on which anybody with an ear for pop with staying power could have chosen between a couple of trails: both the NBC show Conviction and the WB series Related have featured her plaintive song "What I Wouldn't Give" off this, her debut. However you reach this piano-propelled 20-year-old star in the making, though, you won't be sorry. In the space of three songs, she recalls a decade's worth of singer-songwriters twice her age, and in an unhurried, stylish way that suggests she's doing it handily. A wrenching Tori Amos vibe weaves through "Again & Again," a track that recalls Shawn Colvin in equal measure; Suzanne Vega circa Solitude Standing surfaces in the vivid short verses of "Saturday"; and Sarah McLachlan seeps out over most of the vocals, but especially those on "Give It Up for You" and the lovely "Cellar Door." Joni Mitchell is the association Brook was going for--she cites her as influence number one--but comparisons with the more obvious mentors can't come as much of a bummer. The Joni connection may surface yet: Like Blood Like Honey is surely a trickle in a long career to come. --Tammy La Gorce
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