Categories : Music Reviews, Rock + Pop.
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Rating: 3/5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov |
The Baroness is Sarah Slean’s first studio album since 2004, but she hasn’t lost her panache for the dramatic. Stocked with sweeping cabaret-noir pop songs, The Baroness serves as another outlet for Slean’s melodramatic musings on lost love and loneliness.
For the most part, Slean manages to avoid something that has sunk her albums in the past – the tendency to go past drama and into kitsch. The only real slip-up in that department this time around is album opener ‘Hopeful Hearts,’ but from that point on the album is emotional, but in a measured way. The excellent ‘Get Home’ is absolutely meant to be the ground-swelling backdrop to the final scene of a romantic comedy, and she even ventures into some genuine rock ‘n’ roll on ‘So Many Miles.’
The Baroness displays a somewhat more mature Sarah Slean, though it certainly isn’t going to convert any non-believers. Fans, though, are getting exactly what they want.
