Spirit -
1.5
Given the choice
of being pulled through a hedge of thorns or being forced to listen to
this album again, I think I'd go for the former.
When Leona Lewis
won the X Factor I really did think she could sing and had talent. This
album proves she can't and hasn't. To start with the material is dreadful.
Booming bass, outmoded ideas - certainly going through the motions music.
Take a formula,
fit it to the voice and churn out an album. The result is quite hideous.
Lewis' voice is charmless and strident. She destroys the classic
"First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (Roberta Flack she aint).
Elsewhere its
just pumped out epics that merge into one another as Lewis showcases her
raucous, grating voice. "A Moment Like This" was a decent song
in some respects but this album is just an embarrassment and will end up
in the remainder bins before you can say "cashing in on the Christmas
market."
