Breathe - Faith Hill

Amazing voice - Amazing songs - Amazing music.

This album won best country album at this years grammys!!!

Faith hill is a wonderful singer. If you have never heard any of her music she is classed as a country singer but is steadily moving more in to modern country/pop. Her first albums were classic country music but this latest album "breathe" is a totally different sound, it's more upbeat than ever before.

She has released 4 albums - (1st) "take me as I am" , (2nd) "it matters to me" , (3rd) "Love will always win" or otherwise know as the self titled "faith" and lastly "breathe". If you own all the albums as i do, you will see her music steadily progress into pop as she became more famous. She's a major hit in the US (winning loads of awards) but hasn't exactly stunned the UK music buying public (but she stunned me!). She deserves more credit in the UK than she gets as if you take time out to listen to her ... she is a great singer. I would class her in the same catagory as "shania twain" , "trisha yearwood" and "martina mcbride".

Anyway to the album....

There is a mixture of sounds on the album, with a range of meanings, feelings and expression. There are 13 tracks of amazing songs. She doesn't write any of the songs herself but the best tracks have been picked for her and her writers deserve lots of credit.She has got a great band on this album .
Here is a summary of each track and my rating -

1)whats in it for me - A great track to start the album off. It really gives you an insight as to whats to come. It builds up with music for a while (long intro) then an amazing powerful (deffinately country origin) voice booms out an amazing song. 9/10

2)I got my baby - Another uptempo number - i love the sharp piano in this. "baby I got you yeah yeah yeah" you have to hear it to hear the impact but it makes me wish i could sing like this. 9/10

3)Love is a sweet thing - This a song which tells a story about a man first and then a woman both singing "love is a sweet thing" basically meaning anyone can have love man or woman and it's the best feeling. This is summarised in the last verse "in the smile of a strangeer , in the eyes of a child ...... it's every where around us ..... love is a sweet thing" - - - Love is for everyone. I "love" this song - 10/10

4)Breathe - the title track of the album (which has won lots of awards as a single and the video which accompanies it). She starts of slowly with the accompaniement of a single guitar but the other instruments come in gradually. The there is a complete change for the chourus then gets slower for the verse. A good title track . 9/10

5)Let's make love - A duet with her husband "Tim Mcgraw" a slow love song. Tim and faith sound great singing togther. Faith sings the first verse - they sing the chourus together - Tim takes the second verse - 9/10

6)It will be me - a slow one. Not one of my favourite on the album- it doesn't make a big impact on me. 6/10

7)The way you love me - this has a great music video , I love the chorus of this song. great song . 9/10

8)If i'm not in love - nice piano to start this song off. A slow song with a nice melody. A really nice ballad - 9/10

9)Bringing out the elvis - It's not about elvis but using elvis as a metaphor - "your bring out the elvis in me, making my hips wannna to swing..." . - 8/10

10)If my heart had wings - One of my favourite tracks from the album - love the begginging of this song , and the sharp piano over the top. "if my heart had wings, i would fly to you, and lie beside you as a dream..." I love the lyrics. 10/10

11)If i should fall behind - A slow song, not one of my fave's- 7/10

12)That's how love move's - I like this slow song especially the chourus. Its about how love makes you feel. That sometimes you're on a high etc but sometimes you can be hurt. - 10/10

13)There will come a day - deffately one of my fave's . I sung this on Kareoke once at my friends house because i loved it and new all the words. This song is the song that got my friends into liking faith.It opens with piano and gets more instruments as the song goes on. She sang this song on the opening of the CMA awards in 2000 and what an amazing performer - with a gospel choir type backing singers ... wow ... great ending to a perfect album - 100000000/10 !

The "breathe" album and "love will always win" album by faith are my favourites. This is probably because they are more modern country and thats my type of music. I really reccomend this album to people who like Faith, modern country , country, Shania Twain and Tim Mcgraw (considering he features on this album).