Samantha Fish-"Faster"

US blueswoman Samantha Fish makes a serious career move with this album her seventh. Besides she is a hard worker, she has a great pop sensibility for modern rock. "Twisted ambition" has the elements to become a radio hit with traces from FOREIGNER, BLACK KEYS, WHITE STRIPES like an FM blues song aiming to the younger generation. She is a skillful guitar master that never compromises technique with the touch of a good song. 

 

 

"Hypnotic' moves at the same direction, a bit PRINCE, a bit WHITE STRIPES a bit modern blues is as its titles implicates a slowly growing groovy modern song with some nice touches of pop elements at the face of some electronic sounds. 

 Fish knows how to differentiate from her contemporary rivals and prefers to build her ferocious blues solo on more pop aesthetic songs, making the listening of the album far more enjoyable in a retro focus world."Forever together" is the perfect pop song from the 80s showing she is far more than a retro lover. The mid tempo "Crowd control" is at the same motive, part electronic, part pop, part bluesy, making Fish a far more open minded singer,songwriter in the vein of Dido. And then a sudden turn to modern blues at "Imaginary war' showing her riffs are as hard as her blues convictions with the organ ravishing the sound and the beat backbone break the listeners resistances, with its groove. "Loud" feat TechN9Nne is another great example of how she perceives modern blues. The old recipe spiced with some rap vocals and a groovy beat creates a modern blues rock sound that has the swagger of Slash all over her guitar playing. "Better be lonely" is at the same style of modern, mesmerizing blues rock with a twist. "Like a classic" continues at the same path, modern blues with a pop twist and Mrs Fish delivering the goods for one more time with poignant pop sensibility.

 

 

 

Overall on the contrary with the other rival for the blueswoman throne Joanne Saw Taylor, Fish plays her cards well, mixing the blues with some 60s pop, electronica, and looking more to the mainstream than anyone of her contemporaries. I wish Amy Winehouse would be alive to make an album with her, proving that music has no barriers as the closing "All the words' proves in all its stripped down ballad glory.

7,5