The Baroness
Article summary
Sarah Slean's recipe for her musical concoctions is unwaveringly consistent: take a handful of Cabaret-affected melodies, add a sprinkle of musical theatre, then steep that all together in a stockpot of fragile but powerful emotions. With some of the singer's earlier releases, Slean seemed to be trying terribly hard to sound deep and wise; thankfully, that quality has softened somewhat over time. As a result, the music on her fifth CD The Baroness flows more effortlessly and beautifully than any of her previous works. The disc's first single “Get Home” is by far the most impressive track on the disc, an incredibly arresting breakup song written from the point of the `other woman' as she tells her lover to head back home to his wife. It is the first in a handful of tracks that showcase her growth as a songwriter, further separating her from the artists that she has frequently been compared to in the past, ranging from Kate Bush to Fiona Apple. Slean admittedly does revisit the Cabaret style occasionally (“Hopeful Hearts”, “Euphoria”) but it is the sparse musical moments of her and her piano where the singer shines the brightest. Noteworthy highlights include “Goodnight Trouble” -- which has a Pink Floyd-esqueness to it as the song rises from its din to a resounding orchestral rock peak -- and “Please Be Good To Me” a Leonard-Cohen-meets-Reba-McEntire number that is dense with ache and beauty. --Denise Sheppard
Customer's review
A very welcome album...
... after a couple of years of waiting! Yes, "Orphan Music" was great, but the new material we fans desperately longed for, here it is at last! Now, Slean does not rush things, and we love her all the more for that: every song is a delicacy, every melody a soothing, every word a shard from the poet's heart.
It is pure Sarah Slean: what you loved in the previous albums you shall find here as well, although one might feel that "The Baroness" is indeed endowed with more maturity than her past efforts. Could it be love's omnipresence (or absence of it...) that made her turn her lyrical subjects and musical ears toward a more somber, solemn, simple source of inspiration?
Anyway, whatever else I might add about "The Baroness", buy it and see and hear for yourself...
Her best work yet!
Everything in this album is beautiful! The words, instrumental, her voice... it's all quite captivating. The packaging is also put together nicely. I think it's her best work yet! My favorite songs so far are: "Get Home", "Looking For Someone", and "Sound of Water/Change Your Mind." The strings in "Sound of Water..." are hypnotic!
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