Album Review

Joy Adler –

• 10th Mar 2008

Joy Adler possesses a voice that is difficult to compare; the varied path which her life has taken has left her with a truly remarkable ability to turn to almost any style. It is therefore admirable that rather than selling out to popular culture she has chosen to write songs in her own style which are ultimately timeless.

This means she may be missing out on her 5 seconds of fame, but she is also allowing herself a chance to build up a fan base of likeminded people, a group that will undoubtedly keep growing throughout her career.

Her music tastes of classic rock, blues and soul more than benefit from the passion she puts into each song. The production on the tracks is a little raw in places but this serves well to translate the emotion of a live performance into the recordings, which is undoubtedly where her true strengths lie.