{"id":40722,"date":"2008-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/little-voices\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:00:00","slug":"little-voices","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/little-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, seeing as how the Packers got outplayed by the New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> football Giants tonight, Jeff needed a little pick me up to help make the pain go away. Luckily for me, there\u2019s been one album grabbing my attention lately that hit the spot: Little Voices<\/i>.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

This was one of those rare cases where multiple influences in my life came together to present me with an album. It is no secret to anyone who visits this site that I love piano-based rock\/pop. What\u2019s that, Bareilles plays the piano, and is rock\/pop? Check. Secondly, I had a friend constantly getting on my case to give this record a spin; normally I don\u2019t give in but that can only last so long. Finally, I caught about 30 seconds of the lead single, \u201cLove Song,\u201d on a commercial on TV. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

The combination of these three events created some sort of black hole that I was sucked into, and thank god for that. As far as pop\/rock albums go, Little Voices<\/i> is hard to beat. Bareilles has Big League talent, and in six months has begun to demonstrate it.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The proceedings kick off with the utterly infectious lead single \u201cLove Song.\u201d Ben Folds would be proud, as Bareilles pounds out chord after chord, wailing away with such sincerity. It accurately sets the table for what is to come; none of what the album offers is new by any means. However, it is well-executed, which makes all the difference.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

A great deal of the buzz surrounding this record centered on the vocals. Don\u2019t get me wrong, Bareilles has a nice enough voice and on occasion belts out notes on par with the Aguileras of the world (see \u201cCome Round Soon,\u201d) but to be perfectly frank, most of the album finds her with average pipes.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Not to sound like a broken record, but what sells this album is the performance and execution. The shifts in styles are impressive, from the \u201cBennie And The Jets\u201d tinged \u201cLove On The Rocks,\u201d to the straight up Ben Folds riffing of \u201cFairytale.\u201d There\u2019s a hook in practically every song, something that any listener could find enjoyable.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sometimes, people really don\u2019t understand that a great pop album just doesn\u2019t grow on a tree. There are thousands of terrible pop records that come out every year, and are subsequently forgotten and tossed aside into the dustbin of history. Little Voices<\/i> is not some mind-blowing work that will go down in history, that much is certain. But if you’re looking for a top-to-bottom strong piano-rock album, you could do much worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8132],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-40722","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-sara-bareilles","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40722"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}