THE VOYAGER – JENNY LEWIS – CD REVIEW
AMERICAN singer songwriter Jenny Lewis has produced a feel-good album that’s a real blast of sunshine in the fading summer.
Voyager is the former Rilo Kiley singer’s third solo album and it kicks off with the very 80s-sounding Head Underwater.
She’s Not Me is reflective and melodic, with an almost Joni Mitchell vibe to it, while Just One of the Guys is – at last! – a song written for single women in their 30s that doesn’t make them out to be victims.
Love U Forever is a classic pop song with insightful and clever lyrics about corduroy-wearing schoolboys that deserves to have commercial success, while The Voyager is like a musical explosion at the end of the album with a real singalong factor.
There’s just one song I found unpalatable – the repetitive The New You with a riff that has you itching for the ‘skip track’ button.
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