Hey, it's not been very long since I referred to the Italian 'Alessandro Del Vecchio' (yes just yesterday in the last column of 'Sunstorm'), because after having produced and participated in Issa's last album, 'Run with the Pack', he does it again with the Norwegian singer for her latest album 'Queen of Broken Hearts'. With a line-up of talented artists with guitarist 'Simone Mularoni' ('Sunstorm'), bassist 'Andrea Torricini' ('Vision Divine') and drummer 'Marco Di Salvia' ('Edge Of Forever') and 'Hardline') without forgetting 'Alessandro Del Vecchio' on the keyboards, she us offers 11 melodic jewels in an energetic hard-rock with a good balance between the riffs of saturated guitars and the keyboards which bring a bond to the whole. Everything is there to have a great time listening to all these hits that are immediately tamed from the first listen with addictive choruses that loop in the head. All these compositions could have been the subject of a single and, therefore, to name a few, I will say 'The Way Out' in which 'Issa Oversveen' shows all his vocal power, the powerful mid-tempo 'The Night It Rained Forever' and 'Drive' or the catchy 'Queen of Broken Hearts' and 'Without Love'. And the icing on the cake, 'Blues' (see video with the lyrics above) brings the power ballad break with hyper classic melodic lines but so effective and in which 'Simone Mularoni' enchants us with her guitar solo (that we would have liked a little longer). Also note that 'The Way Out' and Angel Calling' were the subject of two videos.
In summary, 'Issa' offers us a very good album filled with heady melodies that are tamed from the first listen and we can only wish her to make discover 'Queen of Broken Hearts' to the greatest number because she has all the assets to be one of the world ambassadors of melodic hard-rock... | |
