Friday, March 4, 2011

Clare Maguire - Light After Dark: a voice wasted on a quiet debut

Clare Maguire is one of the most promising young British new wave, along with Jessie J, but still at a distance abysmal others consecrated as Adele, Florence & The Machine or the same Amy Winehouse. He began his career five years ago when he decided to hang on Myspace a couple of models that achieved rapid success and put her in the spotlight of the big record companies, always on the hunt and capture.

Sponsored by Jay-Z himself, the British signed his first recording contract and embarked on the task of composing and promoting his first album. Light After Dark has thirteen songs written by Clare Maguire itself and produced by T. Fraser Smith, who once collaborated with the likes of Craig David, Pixie Lott, Taio Cruz, James Morrison and even Keane.

In a first approach appeals especially the revival of the electronic-tinged pop so typical of the eighties and nuances so clear and distinct voice of the singer, but after listening to hear you are missing some subtlety in the lyrics and a good update of the sound. Nostalgia is acceptable, but it's not healthy to become a Don Quixote.

One of the most noticeable of Light Tonic After Dark is a flirtation with a view more risky and somewhat away from the demands of most commercial music is produced in the UK, but we must also say that it is not rather than a timid attempt that fails to materialize. There is a clear commitment, bursting in to see what he really likes this girl, what style you enjoy, rather than focusing on creating something that does not disappoint politically correct to label and at the same time be efficient enough to give a chance in the charts.

Video | Clare Maguire - The Sword And The Shield (Youtube) Your songs win when they updated their sound, even if just to sound incredibly elementary in which we can truly unravel the vocal quality of Clare Maguire not hiding in string sections sometimes excessive and without camouflage their intentions by using its influence, perhaps the clearest of Annie Lennox.

This debut is a safe bet on, and this is precisely what else is going against him. Consistency, that is, this album is somehow a sign of cowardice, it is easy to intuit all that it can not be constrained in a style so static and so marked by the synthesizer and sometimes some arrangements Baroque.

Video | Clare Maguire - Last Dance (Youtube) Be singer is a major undertaking. Being the creator of all your songs show your level of involvement in your work and talent makes clear the need for this task. But you can not mean you should. The Clare Maguire voice is magnificent and very recognizable, is very little wasted lyrics tended to resort to emotion that are easy and sometimes too simplistic.

This detail also puzzling when you play against a disc that has not backed a sencillote pop and dance, Katy Perry and company type, but has found a style that differ, even risking virtually no upgrade in any sense. If we add to the overall feeling after listening to the album is that this singer can take much more of himself, and is located on the right track by placing their chips well, the question of poetry becomes even more grating.

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