Anjulie : Anjulie :: Review
Guyanese-Canadian chanteuse Anjulie is the latest “It” girl surrounded by a massive amount of hype since ol’ what’s her name. Although you can objectively fill in the blank with whatever “hip” female songwriter of the past five years, Anjulie and her songwriting partner Jon Levine (ex of Philosopher Kings) possess enough chops and variety on her self-titled debut to keep things interesting.
Anjulie has demonstrated she has a wide array of musical influences reflected on this album such as Nancy Sinatra, Alanis Morrissette, Lauryn Hill and Annie Lennox. The first few tracks on Anjulie’s debut run the gamut from the stylish and swaggering guitar twang of opener “Boom” to the retro-disco of “Some Dumb Girl.” “Addicted2Me” is flawed as the falsetto that Anjulie adopts grates at certain times. However, that’ s a small price to pay for a debut as eclectic as this one. The album effortlessly segues from hip-hop (The Heat) to her singer songwriter shtick (Colombia, Same Damn Thing) but tends to overwhelm the listener because Anjulie’s all over the musical map. If there’s one major fault of this album it’s that each song on this album seems to be written as a single for whatever guise Anjulie is adopting. Perhaps on her next album, Anjulie will find one genre to explore and immerse herself in fully.
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