A beautiful album release from Libba delivers an amazing and unique breed of honesty in the form of storytelling from her perspective and certain songs come through with such robust detail in the form of such a genre bending record that you get everything from pop, classic 1960s style songwriting, classic rock, indie rock, contemporary pop, ballads, there's just a ton of approaches here and it all works super well because there is a glue that holds it all together to the point where it almost even feels like a concept record and the songs interconnect with each other in different ways.
The reflections album is an 11 Track record including an acoustic version of a song that's already on the record and these songs are vast, dreamy, cinematic, edgy, powerful, and some of them even hit a heavy alternative rock vibe at times.
It's been forever since I've heard a record that spans so much ground on one release and it feels really good because these songs are all performed with this amazing honesty and vivacious energy half the time that lets the energy come through electric and almost right in your face which is something that I really like because that kind of thing is infectious.
I feel like this record may have been a series of songs written at different times and freshened up for the whole thing and even if that's not right it does feel like these are chapters in the artist's life so listening to the whole record is important for a few reasons.
Aside from getting the full story, the main reason is that if you only listen to a few songs from this record then you're not getting anywhere near the full spectrum of what the album actually has to offer.
Even if you listen to half of it, you're still not getting anywhere near the full spectrum of what it has to offer.
There's a ton of range but everything is performed with an amazing and addictive energy and charisma that packs in so much character and personality that you become attached to that probably first and foremost.
I adore the fact that this was so personal but also so expansive because it takes a lot to be able to put something like this together and to release something that's got so few boundaries than what you may be used to.
The great thing about it is that there's something for just about everyone and if you like one or two tracks, you're going to like the whole record no matter what.
Some of the songs in more guitar bass and others are more piano based as an instrument of focus but all the songs come together with a message to be said or a story to be told and it gets you listening to the lyrics as much as it gets you jumping around to the song or getting engulfed by it.
I can't urge enough how this is a record to listen to from beginning to end and I do think that it's something that you can take 40 minutes to do release and there's so many pieces of her throughout it that you want more even when it's over.
This was definitely put together by someone who writes music to get things off of her chest to the point where this may have been a bit cathartic for her even if the songs were actually written at different times in her life.
There are tons of hooks whether they're softer or harder, and a lot of them stick with you for hours or even days after the song and the only way to satiate that is to listen to it again.
I would consider this to be smart song writing but I think she just does this naturally and how she writes her music.
Libba is an artist that I'm definitely going to be paying a lot more attention to from here on out.
Take a deep dive into this record and set some time to listen to the whole thing through because I promise you it's worth it.
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