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Little Voice | 
| Artist: Sara Bareilles
Label: SonyBMG
Category: Music
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 115
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 886973105122
EAN: 0886973105122
ASIN: B0017YZII2
Release Date: June 16, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Love Song | | • | Vegas | | • | Bottle It Up | | • | One Sweet Love | | • | Come Round Soon | | • | Morningside | | • | Between The Lines | | • | Love On The Rocks | | • | City | | • | Many the Miles | | • | Fairytale | | • | Gravity |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
For many listeners, Little Voice will be their first exposure to this soulful singer/songwriter, but it's actually Sara Bareilles' second record. Her first, the self-released Careful Confessions, led to a deal with Epic. Since then, Bareilles has opened for Marc Broussard and Maroon 5. She's also become a bonafide soundtrack queen with tracks featured in female-centric films Girl Play, Loving Annabelle, and Monster-in-Law. As with her out-of-print debut, the UCLA grad wrote every song on her first major label recording (Little Voice features re-worked versions of several demo numbers). Like the portrait on the back of the CD--Bareilles in strappy black dress and lace-free high-tops--the piano-playing chanteuse combines the sweet with the scruffy. While her jazzy pop melodies are radio-ready, her relationship-oriented lyrics can be unexpectedly salty ("Bottle Up" and "Come Round Soon" wouldn't pass FCC muster). A little profanity here and there, however, doesn't indicate tough-girl attitude--Amy Winehouse can rest easy--so much as a desire to express herself freely. As Bareilles explains in "Love Song", "I'm trying to let you hear me as I am." (Not surprisingly, her degree is in communications). Fans of Sarah McLachlan and Alicia Keyes will find much to like here. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Consistently good August 25, 2008
Sick of one hit wonders? It's all too common - one good song and an album full of filler. To my mind, this album actually surpasses the promise of the single "Love Song". The more you listen, the more there is to like. If I'm honest, I barely listened to anything else for the last month - and that was an act of will. Her music combines melodies that will stay with haunt you for days with variety and genuinely clever lyrics.
If you like the slightly quirky off-beat feel of "Love Song", try listening to "Fairytale", or "Morningside". For sad ballads, you'll be hard-pressed to find better than "Between the Lines", "City" and "Gravity". If you like slightly jazzy Norah Jones style, try "Vegas" or "or "One Sweet Love".
 Little Voice - Big Heart August 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
..... and still they keep coming !
Yet another gifted writer / performer.
This time from across the water.
On this evidence home-grown isn't necessarily better.
(The Divine -but disintegrating - Ms Winehouse excepted of course).
The industry's current obsession with all things female
is beginning to reach saturation point.
...... and yet .....
Perhaps Ms Bareilles may be permitted a few moments of our time.
Little Voice is a solid and splendid Little Album.
Eleven very good songs and one real cracker - 'Between The Lines' -
head-and-shoulders above the rest.
The voice is soulful, elegant and never anything less than centered.
The band and producer are on her side.
Ms Bareilles grasp of jazzy vocal inflection is light and convincing -
'Vegas'; 'Come Round Soon'; 'Love On The Rocks' and 'Fairytale'
bring the young Ms R.L. Jones to mind - and no shame in that.
'Love Song'; 'Morningside' and 'Many The Miles' demonstrate her
not insignificant R&B credentials.
With 'Between The Lines' however we come to the centre of that
which this talented young woman is capable.
It is a truly gorgeous, bitter-sweet beauty of a song song, which,
had she heard it first, Ms Twain may have fought tooth and claw to
possess in an attempt to resurrect her ailing career.
This one song alone is worth the price of the album.
Recommended.
Amazing debut album August 17, 2008
Sara Bareilles' first long-player is a triumph indeed. Not only are the songs catchy and poppy, her voice different and beautiful; the songs are full of wonderful lyrics. "Love Song", the opener, is not a love song at all, but the complete opposite - a protest to her record company that wanted her to write a conventional love song...when in fact, a lot of the album is about heartbreak, and seems to be focused on wanting someone that never gives quite enough back to you...for example "Come Round Soon" (a particular favourite), with the line 'One too many drinks tonight, and I miss you...like you were mine.' Beautiful. My favourite on the album though is the absolutely heartbreaking 'Between the Lines', about a relationship that was never quite on or off ('I tell myself all the words he surely meant to say / I'll talk until the conversation doesn't stay on / "Wait for me, I'm almost ready", when he meant "let go"), is achingly beautiful, and is definitely the most impressive track. "Love on the Rocks" and "Bottle It Up" are catchy stand-out tracks too, and another favourite of mine is "Fairytale", all about how the fairytale ending never happens and isn't all it's cracked up to be; the lyrics are witty and funny, a particular favourite line being 'The tall blonde lets out a cry of despair / Says "would have cut it myself if I knew men could climb hair" /I'll have to find another tower somewhere and keep away from the windows.' And finally, the closer, "Gravity" deserves a mention for Bareilles' amazing vocal performance. A heartbreaking end to an album of heartache, anger, but hope, too ("Many The Miles" and "Vegas" for example.) I don't like comparisons, but her voice and lyrics remind me vaguely of Fiona Apple; I'd say she's a poppier, easier to listen to version, and shows great promise. Invest in this album, it's wonderful.
Great debut - fresh, different and full of hooks August 7, 2008
Sara Bareilles is a breath of fresh air in the pop scene, and seems to have come from nowhere just when we needed an injection of hooky, melodic piano pop. Little Voice is full of catchy tunes, not least the chart success "Love Song". Stylistically there's a lot of variety here, from the bluesy "Vegas" to the edgier pop rock of "Morningside" and the sensitive, reflective ballad "Between the Lines". The clean-cut mix of piano and bass are ever-present, though, giving the album an honest approach - a bit like Maroon 5 meets Ben Folds Five, with Sara's expert vocal on top. As for Sara herself, she really has something special which defies a single comparison - at times she has a bit of Sandi Thom about her, at others she's a little Natasha Bedingfield, and then there's a bit of Gabriella Cilmi - her voice is really multifaceted.
All in all, well recommended - a great listen and every track worth revisiting.
SMASHING! August 4, 2008
This is fantastic - I cant put it any better than that - it wraps around you like your favourite blanket and sounds like an old CD you've loved for years! Not a single bad track on it - an absolute smasher !!
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