Album: On Personhood
Date: April 22nd, 2013
Genre: Ambient/Indie
Label: Forward Music Group
Origin: Halifax, Nova Scotia
From Halifax, Nova Scotia is the up-and-coming indie artist, Gianna Lauren. This Canadian vocalist is paired with multi-instrumentalists J.J. Ipsen, Justin Nace, drummer Marshall Bureau, and engineer Andy Magoffin. These ambient-rock style musicians come together to share the new album: On Personhood. The obscurity within Lauren’s emotion-filled, smooth voice harmonizes with the serene guitars and soft drums to make this album dream-like.
This six-track album delivers melodic, captivating vocals with sassy lyrics that make this album enchanting. Starting off the album is the song “Trouble”. The darkness of the track is accompanied with gentle, yet sturdy vocals and an attractive bass guitar rhythm that balances the rest of the instruments, and keeps the song interesting. The song maintains the mysterious, edgy quality within Lauren’s voice, which allows the listener to become instantly compelled. While this song seemed to be original and light, “Thread” and “Bitches Brew” appeared to be cut from the same cloth as the aforementioned song. With dark tones, soft instrumentals, and sassy lyrics, the repeated sound caused this album to be somewhat predictable.
A pleasurable twist in the fairly predictable album was a song called “Anchor Down”. While Lauren stood by her easy-going vocals, the instruments hummed against the grain with an up-beat, relaxing island feel. The repetitive lyrics created a catchier, laid-back atmosphere throughout the duration of the three-minute song. With most of the song lyrics pertaining to love and its complications, this was a breath of fresh, sun-filled air that provided a rest from the gloomy sounds for the listener. A song on the album with a similar sound was “Ghosts”. Both songs were more cheerful than the rest, and they brought a form of diversity to the album that wasn’t existent before.
Lauren’s sweet, sincere resonance added emotions to each and every song, but I still felt fairly unsatisfied with the album as a whole. It seemed to be lacklustre at times, and it was also deficient in diversity. While each tune developed a new emotion, Lauren’s vocals scarcely showed range, which left me feeling unfulfilled.
With a striking, sensual ambience, Gianna Lauren took charge of the music presented on her newest album. From start to finish, though it felt predictable and not very original, the effort that was put in was admirable. Lauren’s genuine vocals and purring instruments provided a soft atmosphere, which will take the audience to a new destination. Overall it was a pretty good album, but Lauren should focus on diversity for her next one.
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