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Megan Jacobs - Prosperity
- Channeling the duality of water, Megan Jacobs manages to be as sweet and gentle as rain, but turns at a moment’s notice to direct the full soul fury of a torrential downpour at anybody who listens to her latest disc, “Prosperity”.
Kicking things off with the touchingly low-key “Time to Find”, Jacobs muses at the romantic situations that everybody finds themselves in at one point or another, singing of reaching down inside and finding personal identity in the face of past loves, and moving on to a tribute to the Big Easy with “New Orleans”, and capping it all off with key tracks “Life is Precious” and “Love is My Memory”.
Jacobs sticks to the basics on each track: keys, bass, and drums, with a couple additions on each track. While some might think of this as a sparse arrangement, it perfectly suits the atmosphere she creates. On “New Orleans”, the horns help hammer the song home, and “Love is My Memory” traces the vocal melody with subtly tinged guitar lines. (Although the dog howl and the other background sounds on “Backdrop” really do add to the experience.)
The lyrical content concerns itself mainly with the ups and downs of young life. “ Life is Precious” bears a simple message to young folk everywhere dealing with the hardships in everyday life: “Painless, I know, but it’s not painless / don’t take it so serious / life is precious.”
Don’t try to compare Jacobs to Joss Stone or Amy Winehouse; while it’s tempting to set them side to side and hark on their similarities, all three are entirely different musicians. Jacobs might even outshine them both.
Reviewer: Brian Lynch
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Reviewer's Rating: 8.5
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Added: 21-Dec-2007
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