Ledisi's website currently has a countdown going on until her album ("Turn Me Loose") is released on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009. On this countdown you can listen to an additional new song every week. Right now you can listen to her current single "Goin' Thru Changes", "Everything Changes", and the title track "Turn Me Loose." Check it out and leave your review!
Review of "Goin' Thru Changes":
****/****
"Goin' Thru Changes", which is co-produced by Led and Rex Rideou tells the story of a woman torn between two men--the one she's with and her close friend. Like most of Ledisi's musical collection you can hear and feel the gospel and blues impulses in the music that accompanies her voice. In this song I hear a steady church drum line and an organ sound that seeps in and out of the song occasionally. This beat allows Ledisi to do what she does best and just SANG all over the beat with her crazy runs, her upper register and tenacious wails. This track to me feels more organic and rawer than her last effort and it is gladly welcomed. Don't get me wrong her last album was amazing, this single just has a bit more grit. Ledisi's vocals sound as if they were recorded live at one of her shows and then just mastered on top of the lush instrumental behind her.
You can currently purchase her single on iTunes (I have over 36 plays since purchasing it yesterday and counting!) You can also pre-order the album right now on
Amazon.
