Self-taught on the piano from the age of four and then later by taking formal lessons to further her vocal work, Ontario’s Megan Bonnell has pretty much been grooming herself to be the talented songstress her first LP Chase And Hunt <\/i>showcases. <\/i>Using minimal tools (mainly her voice, piano and gently strummed guitars), Bonnell goes the graceful and mature route here, on some very well thought out tracks. <\/p>\n
The youngster starts with one of her greatest strengths: those extremely husky, smoky pipes, and she opens \u201cComing Home\u201d with a deep exhalation of singing while the calm guitars twinkle. She employs a trick on this first tune that is consistent all the way through by backing her own voice, providing a doubling effect. \u201cFound You\u201d takes the dreamy cue from the lead off track and stays equally surreal, this time featuring elegant piano playing to back her strong vocals. Another pattern develops here, as Bonnell starts sparse before building into a fuller display of power and melody. This tactic repeats itself several times, most noteworthy on the playful \u201cOff This World,\u201d which starts like a ballad before brewing into a lush and ebullient finish.<\/p>\n
There are a couple of anomalies, however. On \u201cStars,\u201d Bonnell shows a more folksy side, and the title track \u201cHunt And Chase\u201d is a busy, noisy, reckless rocker, the loudest and most abrasive she’ll get on these 10 tunes. Bonnell has stated that it’s always been just her and her piano, which there are plenty of, but quaint acoustic guitars often accompany her, too. On the album closer \u201cThis Is The Way For Us,\u201d which is a soft acoustic strummer, Bonnell comes off like a younger Dolores O’Riordan (The Cranberries) in almost lullaby fashion. <\/p>\n
Bonnell is an ideal artist for the adult contemporary crowd or indie rockers who secretly enjoy Tori Amos. No one could deny that Hunt And Chase<\/i> is clearly a debut by an extremely talented musician and singer with a luminous career ahead of her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":32045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9450],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-43784","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-megan-bonnell","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43784","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43784"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}