Songs of Love and Peace

Kristy Love Brooks, make sure you add the Brooks when doing an online search because you won’t find anything on the Kristy Love singer, puts out her new album Songs of Love and Peace. This album has a set list of 15 songs that time out at one hour of listening. The shortest song on this CD is three minutes 29 seconds long where the longest clocks in at five minutes 30 seconds. These are not short songs and there are a lot of them and typically this would be a good thing but I just didn’t feel the love from this CD.
Here’s my biggest complaint with the songs, they’re boring, even the more upbeat dance ones, they just lack the fun element. Instead of listen to a song that would make me want to dance or play when on a date, I felt like I was listening to a CD where I was being given some soul searching story. Most of the songs are missing a catchy beat, tune, or lyrics that would hook me on the song. There are a few, a very few, that almost get a beat going that could have went somewhere but they never did. It was like I was about to open a can of biscuits where my whole body is tensing up getting ready for that sudden popping opening of the can but it doesn’t happen. I kept waiting for these songs to hit that popping moment that would set the whole sound off and I would be getting into the songs but that moment never came.
I didn’t like how the album opens with “All Over The World” because it set the tone that this was the kind of music I was going to be hearing on this album. That sound is one where the vocals has been put through a sound mixer making it come out sounding just like all the other non-talented dj/dance songs at clubs today. Thankfully Kristy Love does not keep up with this mixed sound but instead has a wide variety of style of songs to give the album a good mix of sounds. Most are love songs but there are also some pop, dance, soul, and some that reminded me of an 80’s movie soundtrack. Though the songs might not be the most exciting of songs, Kristy Love’s voice never cracked, or at least I didn’t hear it. These notes she sings are not easy to do and she holds some of them for a little bit where most voices would crack. She has the voice to sing but the it that songs have that make them popular, it’s just not found here.