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Reviews: Stacey Board ~ Look to the Sun
Posted on Saturday, February 03, 2007 @ 13:14:23 PST
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Artist: Stacey Board
CD: Look to the Sun
Home: Sandy, Utah
Style: Country/Folk
Quote: "I love how Board centers each CD on one specific idea and brings it out in every aspect of the project."
By Jennifer Layton
Stacey Board must have done very well on her high school English papers, because she can really carry through with a theme. (Or a motif. I always got those mixed up.) Her 2002 CD, Drive, centered around road trips, and she carried that idea through in the CD artwork, the sound clips of a car radio and wheels on the road, and her jamming guitar and conversational singing style.
This time, it’s about flowers, and again, she’s brilliant in the way she covers every detail. Not only do the lyrics make references to blooming and wilting and drinking in the sunlight, but the tempo of each song is patient and laid-back, like a flower taking its sweet time to open. Her voice is less conversational and more crooning, lilting, in harmony with nature. Hearing her pure country/folkie/earthy voice with its twangy spunk on this CD feels like lying in the warm grass on a spring day, basking in the sun.
The songs are soulful reflections of love and loss without any trace of melodrama,
not even in the opener “Cry Cry Cry.” That one’s just a down-to-earth description
of a woman having to let it all out every once in a while.
While some songs are heartbreakers, Board keeps a philosophical approach. “Satellite” is a good example. The lyrics sound like she is separated from the one she loves, but instead of hysteria, we get this blissful image:
You’re the sea, and my moon is full ...
Arcing floating I’ll pass over
I will blow a kiss
Every point on my horizon comes to this ...
But in keeping with the theme, I kept focusing on the floral imagry. From “Sleep”:
All things we planted bloomed
Til you spoke her name
You turned our love to my shame ...
“Home to Me Now” contains the great image of “a seed to a flower that blooms in
wings.” She hears whispering coming from her garden in “Not the Way.” Everything
around her is alive and breathing, inspiring her.
I love how Board centers each CD on one specific idea and brings it out in every aspect of the project. It makes me wonder what she’ll try next. Churches? Oceans? Trees? Whatever it is, she’ll come up with gorgeous CD art and lyrics that make you see churches, oceans, or trees in a way you never did before.
Artist Website: http://www.staceyboard.com
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