MPress
2008
Chandelier
About This Album
Chandelier is Rachael Sage's eighth self-released album in the last 12 years, and in describing her, it seems necessary to fall back on comparisons with some of her contemporaries. With her piano-based pop/rock arrangements, over which she sings in an expressive, slightly throaty alto, she comes off as a cross between Tori Amos and Jewel, with perhaps a hint of Ani DiFranco and, given the occasionally jazzy playing of her accompanists, perhaps a pinch of Norah Jones. By the time an artist has made eight albums, however, she isn't supposed to be reminding listeners so much of other artists, and that Sage still does is not just a function of a recording career conducted outside the mainstream labels (nobody mistakes DiFranco, also the proprietor of her own label, for anybody else), but also because her writing and performing, while ear-catching, are not sufficiently distinguished. One factor in going the independent route is a relative lack of feedback, which may be a good or a bad thing, depending on one's own rigorousness. Sage writes a lot of lyrics, most often plumbing the complexities of romantic relationships and sometimes mixing metaphors in run-on sentences in the process.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9)

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