Norah Jones - Feels Like Home

POSTED 10 - FEB - 2004   ON NEVARANTA.COM

by my_nick

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I shamelessly praised her first album long before it first went platinum, and come to think of it I admit I might have over done it. It’s just one of those album you fall in love with, but that was over a year  and platinum sales ago – so can the angel with the angel voice deliver take me to heaven again?

 

The legendary jazz label Blue Note took a chance on Norah – and let her do her thing as it turned out that has been good to Norah, and exceptional good to Blue Note. When was the last century Blue Note (or jazz for that matter sold multi platinum)? The question of course was could she follow up this tremendous success? And Feels Like Home is the answer; yes, she could and did.

 

Norah’s album is over all as good as her first album, if not technically better, she delivers dead on, but and I don’t want to sound negative or make an element of criticism – it’s just that it sounds so very much like the first album. In pop and rock that is murder, but Norah pulls it off – I’m in love again, though I doubt it will take sweep me off my feet and lift me to heaven.

 

Having said that, Norah do have to me at least a few surprises on Feels Like Home, doing her own interpretations of a couple of folk songs.

 

Needless to say Norah Jones has one of the warmest, soft, and gentle voice ever heard on record, but the whole sound of the album is in warm acoustic tones, a beauty for your ears and soul – you’ll fall a love too, and if you are not already familiar with her first album I would not be surprised if you feel a little bit like heaven. Verdict 9/10

 

 

Highlights: Don’t Miss You At All, Humble Me, The Prettiest Thing.

Producers: Arif Mardin and Norah Jones

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