ww.iamarielle.com [Release date 20.04.23]
Arielle has had a stop-start career which has involved record label issues and rehab. Now an independent artist, the new album ’73 is her true second coming. It’s suitably titled because (whilst referencing her classic VW campervan) the album is a throw back to some classic seventies female-fronted rock, which would include the likes of Joni Mitchell as much as Carly Simon or Helen Reddy.
She regards Brian May as a mentor and her ‘Two-Tone’ guitar is a collaboration with his BMG company. It was May who suggested her appearance in the Queen musical ‘We Will Rock You’.
The album perhaps surprisingly majors on thoughtful, mid-tempo songs, although the rocky stuff is convincing too like opener ‘Somewhere Slow’ and title track. And by way of curveballs ‘Kalypso’ is a really cool instrumental that owes something to Eric Johnson with whom she has also collaborated.
The seventies vibe continues with a convincing cover of the Bread classic ‘If’.
Arielle is evidently a talented guitarist (and vocalist) but it’s the overall package that shines. Songs like ‘Goes Without Saying’ and ‘I Need An Angel’ , maintain the variety but also the very high quality. The album rounds off with ‘Wherever We Go From Here’ which again takes us back to the very best of female singer songwriter music in the seventies.
The album is bluesy, rocky and rootsy in equal measures and will hopefully re-align Arielle at the forefront of female rock. ****1/2
Review by David Randall
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25 MAY NOTTINGHAM RESCUE ROOMS
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