It’s getting really hard to write about Melissa Etheridge’s albums these days.She keeps an incredibly high minimum standard and even though she doesn’t really present any direct news, her albums are fantastically good to listen to. If you expect innovation, you should probably stay away, but that’s what they are about, you know what you’re getting from the start, the rest is really just a nuance.
On this album, she succeeds superbly. The first half is slightly better in my opinion, this is where the strongest songs are. I can’t exactly pinpoint the lyrics in general, but I can once again state that it is one of Melissa’s strongest sides. For example, I immediately fell in love with the album’s second song – Take My Number, which looks back at a bygone schoolday. What was and what became. It is a subject that is dear to me for purely personal reasons. She expresses it fantastically well.I would say this is Melissa Etheridge’s best album in a while, at least since Awakening. I like the way it’s made!
Translation of a review I made some years ago in Swedish
