Selah Sue maakt indruk met volwassen tweede plaat You want to know what a Selah Sue concert is like? Read my review of her gig in Amsterdam last year here.
Must listen: Alone, Sadness, Daddy, Won’t Go For More, Always Home, Fear Nothing I am absolutely positive Reason will make an ever bigger star out of her. At the end of the album the guitar driven ballad ‘Always Home’ comes on and you realize what a rare talent she is. Selah Sue managed to deliver a second album that is consistent throughout and takes you on a journey inside her emotional world, without compromising either the most happy or difficult parts of it. She could probably promote her new release best with the catchy ‘Won’t Go For More’ and the vivacious title track ‘Reason’, which will do well if performed at festivals. Where her first album had more obvious hits and stand out tracks like ‘This World’, ‘Ragamuffin’ and ‘Black Part Love’, the sophomore record does not have the same highs although the first single ‘Alone’ might be her biggest hit to date. Sue sings about the tough times she is going through, linking to the fact she is constantly fighting depression, something she bravely talked about in a Belgian television show last year. Furthermore, this track stands out for her raw and pure vocal delivery that make the emotional message even stronger. This is typical for Sue’s eclactic mix of styles. Selah pours her heart out on the ballad ‘Sadness’ that takes you back to the Soul music of the sixties, until the post chorus kicks in, where she semi raps over a lazy guitar with a light reggae vibe. Those songs are two extremes within the boundaries of this cohesive collection of honest and emotional songs, where the soulful but contemporary big choruses of ‘Alive’ and ‘Fear Nothing’ (with simply outstanding vocals by the way) seem to be the centre. The tension in this track breathes a competely different atmosphere than the laidback percussion of ‘Daddy’, an endearing ode to her father (after she already dedicated ‘Mommy’ to her mother on the first record). Take for example the dark and electronic sound she uses on ‘Right Where I Want You’.
The great thing about this record is that Selah is able to use all kinds of different styles and puts them together into one record that still sounds like a unity. In comparison to her earlier work, the tracks sound fuller thanks to the layered and less acoustic productions that gives the overall sound more swing. Listening to Reason feels like listening to a diverse but cohesive and perfected but still sincere body of work. Especially her songwriting and the production of the tracks sound more mature. Because the wait was long, the expectations are high, but is she able to impress once again?įirst of all, Reason is not a completely different direction from what she did on her debut album, but the Belgian singer-songwriter definitely shows growth. Now she launched her second album called Reason. The catchy and funky track got brought her positive reactions and quite a lot of buzz. The young singer, whose real name is Sanne Putseys, came back late in 2014 with the brand new single ‘Alone’, a first taste of the always important sophomore record. It is already four years ago that Selah Sue impressed in the European charts with her self titled debut album. Selah Sue back with long awaited second record (Scroll naar beneden voor Nederlandse versie)
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