SongVersation

"Largely a low-key, gently uplifting affair with a soft, warm glow, 11 of its 16 tracks are enhanced with assistance from several Turkish musicians ... It's evident that Arie's in a good place, both creatively and personally, yet SongVersation is not about self-satisfaction. She has no trouble bringing her listeners along".

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"Arie is pretty upbeat about love on this album, but when describing her feelings, she falls back too much on stock, recycled phrases. "The world can be so cold," she sings, "but you are always warm." Later she suggests, "You cannot fly, until you break the shell", and "I am not the pieces of the brokenness inside / I am light." When she asks "how far will we go before we have to learn the lesson", you may wonder about those ancestors of hers; the blues knows that we never learn our lesson until it is too late. At such a point, Arie's clichés can begin to feel meaninglessness".