Ice Like The Sky
I like Marion Raven's "Flesh And Bone" a lot, more than anything I've heard of hers since "End Of Me" and "Break You" back in 2005. Brings her to the dark dance, away from her recent foray into the L.A. rock-bitch thing.
Full version streamed here:
http://ren-is-a-mess.tumblr.com/post/1102735738/marion-raven-flesh-and-bone-its-ok-ren
If anything, this is produced* better than "Break You" and "End Of Me" - nothing bad about those songs as written, but they were the first step into Max 'n' Luke's wrong direction of overkill, and Marion's voice, though strong, didn't have the Kelly Clarkson ability to lift and propel everything no matter how water-logged. Whereas "Flesh and Bone" achieves its loudness without guitar onslaught or deep liquid.** Isn't quite as good a song as "End Of Me," but I keep listening. The lyrics are disappointing: Marion is shattered, all the pieces frozen, rearranged. Perhaps the smartest lyric she over wrote was "Girl In Your Dreams" at age 13, "Maybe I don't have eyes like the sky," very knowing about the clichés it was denying.
*Haven't found out yet who produced this. Songwriters are David Gamson, Alexander James, Oliver Leiber, and E. Kidd Bogart. Often when Bogart's around, J.R. Rotem is on the board, but I don't know if he is this time.
**Though Dave says, "still sounds a bit like she's being drowned with a piano in the Baltic Ocean!"
Click to viewFull version streamed here:
http://ren-is-a-mess.tumblr.com/post/1102735738/marion-raven-flesh-and-bone-its-ok-ren
If anything, this is produced* better than "Break You" and "End Of Me" - nothing bad about those songs as written, but they were the first step into Max 'n' Luke's wrong direction of overkill, and Marion's voice, though strong, didn't have the Kelly Clarkson ability to lift and propel everything no matter how water-logged. Whereas "Flesh and Bone" achieves its loudness without guitar onslaught or deep liquid.** Isn't quite as good a song as "End Of Me," but I keep listening. The lyrics are disappointing: Marion is shattered, all the pieces frozen, rearranged. Perhaps the smartest lyric she over wrote was "Girl In Your Dreams" at age 13, "Maybe I don't have eyes like the sky," very knowing about the clichés it was denying.
*Haven't found out yet who produced this. Songwriters are David Gamson, Alexander James, Oliver Leiber, and E. Kidd Bogart. Often when Bogart's around, J.R. Rotem is on the board, but I don't know if he is this time.
**Though Dave says, "still sounds a bit like she's being drowned with a piano in the Baltic Ocean!"