Careless Love - Madeleine Peyroux

Madeleine Peyroux has one of the most beautiful singing voices I have ever heard and draws comparisons with Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald, she has a silky smooth voicethat really controls the songs and draws the listener in to the wonderful melodies. This her second album is her best as far as I'm concerned, it shows a maturity in her music and has some lovely ballads on it. The vision you have when listening to her work is of a seedy smoke filled jazz bar with a lone singer and a small backing band of piano and strings and maybe a snare drum. The opening track Dance Me to the End of Love is a cover of a Leonard Cohen track and it is upbeat ...  Read the complete review

This is one of the many albums that my dad got me to buy, as he convinced me that Madeline Peyroux was a good singer and someon that i would thoroughly enjoy. And as usual, he was right, as this is an able that i enjoy every time that i put it on. The albume itself is based around blues covered in french tinged vocals that fit this style and genre so well, its as if it was invented for her. And as with most female vocalists, it is the vocals that are the standouts on this able, bringing the blues and emotions on these tracks to a much more personal level. Almost every track on this album is a highlight, each possessing their own feel and emotion ...  Read the complete review

Never before have I purchased an album without having listened to a single track beforehand. My initial contact with this artist was a 30 second TV advert which made me look up from my paper as the voice had a hauntingly beautiful quality. I barely had time to note the name of the artist however I did remember the fact that the advert ended with a quote from the Times and therefore after a brief search of the archive sections I found a full review of Careless Love by Madeline Peyroux which was full of praise. It was then time to log onto cd-wow and for £7.99 I was the proud owner of this fantastic album. Now for those younger members raised on the incessant ...  Read the complete review