Songs For Echo - Auto Da Fe

Echoes of greatness

Advantages: Some super tracks, nice variety of music, great vocals throughout
Disadvantages: A couple of average songs

Leona Lewis' second album has been 2 years in the making, and I've very much been looking forward to the release of this. She came back onto the scene a couple of months ago with the debut single from her new album, Happy, and has been performing it on pretty much all the TV shows she can get onto. Finally, I managed to download it on its release for a bargain price on Tesco Entertainment, and sat there listening to it for the next few hours trying to determine how much I liked it. I put a copy in my car so that I could listen to it when I was driving round, and now after a good few weeks of listening, I'm ready to review and give what I hope is a rounded and full opinion of Leona Lewis' fantastic second album, Echo. The album begins with Leona's first single from it, Happy. This is a song that people are calling a poor man's "Bleeding ...

mummy2harry 24.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Echo - Leona Lewis

* Echo............Echoooo*

Advantages: Voice , Lyrics
Disadvantages: None

gets louder and each chorus gets bigger which results in a big finish with a change of key. A beautiful song. *Lost Then Found* This is a duet with One Republic. I was suprised at how well their voices blend together (Before hearing this track , I wouldn't have thought that the two would go well together , although I was pleasantly suprised. This is quite a strong track , one which I enjoyed listening to as it was quite different to hear Leona sing with someone else on an album. * Stone Hearts * I like this ballad and like the soft beginning , and after each verse it gets more louder and dramatic. I like the simple sound of the piano chords. First of all , Echo has a slight different sound to Spirit , although I can't help feeling that Spirit was a better album. On this album , Leona introduces us to a new side ; a more rockier ...

xdonzx 03.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Echo - Leona Lewis

Echoes

Advantages: Classic Maeve Binchy
Disadvantages: Wasn't impressed with the ending, it was a little too unresolved for my liking

Like the majority of Maeve Binchy's books, this is set in a small town in Ireland. 'Echoes' tells the story of Clare O'Brien, the daughter of a shopkeeper who have to rely on the tourists of this seaside town to keep afloat. Clare is bright, and dreams of a life beyond her rpesent circimstances. David is the son of a doctor and a class consceience mother, he goes to boarding school rather than the local school in the village. Angela O'Hara, a teacher at the school, who is the daughter of a drunk who was able to get an education against the odds, and who risks everything to help Clare escape and achieve the the same. And Gerry Doyle, a photographers son, town charmer who vows to have Clare at any price.... As always, Binchy makes each of the characters come alive with this amazing but slightly depressing plot. Each characters personal ...

twiggy001 11.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Echoes - Maeve Binchy