Melody Gardot is back and she's sounding amazing :]
This 24 year old jazz vocalist first got my attention with her heroic use of music as therapy after being hit with a car and leaving her with severe nerve damage at age 19.
In her own words,
"Music is the thing that saved me.
It’s the thing that gave me purpose."
Her last release Worrisome Heart was good, and I bought the album for a couple of friends in confidence, but there was something missing - I just couldn't figure out what. Whatever it was, it's definitely not missing in her newest release My One and Only Thrill. The sound production on this album is definitely one up her last work - it just sounds fuller. Her voice shines as the star of each track, as it should, and the instrumentation keeps a very elaborate yet prim & proper backdrop in all the tracks - this was a winner from the very first listen and I'm sure it'll stay on my current playlist for a while.
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