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Reviews: Arielle Silver ~ Something Pretty Something True
Posted on Saturday, November 04, 2006 @ 09:25:23 PST
Topic: Reviews
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Artist: Arielle Silver
CD: SomethingPrettySomethingTrue
Home: Boston, Massachusetts
Style: Indie Folk/Rock
Quote: "You could fall miles into Arielle Silver’s powerful voice. That rich and throaty voice strides, warbles and leaps all across the album as she delves deep into her poetry journal."
By Charles Martin
You could fall miles into Arielle Silver’s powerful vocals. That rich and throaty voice strides, warbles and leaps all across the album as she delves deep into her poetry journal. Musically, Silver hasn’t strayed far from her coffee house roots, even when pedal steel guitar or Latin percussion emerges in a song.
Her erratic, forceful delivery and heavily weighted lyrics bring to mind Tori Amos and Fiona Apple, just not as much piano and not nearly as much emotional damage.
The road seems to have been unkind to Silver, as many of the songs revolve around loneliness and romantic strife. She breaks from the broken heart midway in the album on two of the more interesting tracks.
On “Downpour, Downtrodden,” Silver unleashes her inner beat poet, with blues guitar backing her sharp tongue skipping across politically charged declarations. The next track, “Pull and Push” documents a frustrated artist wrestling with her lack of creative direction.
The band sounds constrained from a lack of resources. The instrumentation is interesting, but isn’t as bold as the vocals which might be due to the fact that they are just a three piece. Regardless, they’ve got a good nucleus and are at their best when they are taking chances.
http://www.ariellesilver.com
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