Positive Reviews

Hello ladies and gents! Another Sunday and another portion of Positive Reviews coming! In today’s chapter I’ve decided to go in more R&B/Soul/Urban style. Once again I turned to blind luck and picked an album that was telling me absolutely nothing. I commit to Love is a first solo album of Howard Hewett. His career started in late 70's, when he joined a Grammy winners Shalamar. It was a take to rise for Howard as he established his voice well in earlier mentioned genres. When in 1985 this cult band split, young vocalist started his solo career. Only one year later his first album saw the daylight and very quickly won hearts of millions. Many of the song that appeared on the album went very high on different charts, a whole album went Platinum. This information gave me the idea that once again I chose right. I was very curious of what gem hides in these files I was about to stream from one of the music services. First song on the record - “Stay” - started with a dr...

Hello guys! Is there any nostalgic feeling in you that wants you to turn on the old song from your childhood? Some similar tunes to get the same vibe? When I found Freebee and their self-titled album it took me back to the times when euro pop ruled. Freebe was a band from Sweden and that is pretty enigmatic in the Internet (barely any info I can find about them). So without too much background I listened their album. What strikes me hard at the start that their sound is pure 90s. There was a need for this kind of music and their feel that gap. And Sweden had a long lasting success with releasing bands that conquered Europe with their music, just to mentioned Army of Lovers or Ace of Base. And especially similarity to that second band you can find on most of the tracks on Freebe . I’m assuming i t’ s because they had the same production group (but can’t find a solid info abut it so don’t take my word for granted!). But apart from that, Freebee group add ed some more authenticity ...