Talent Found Out West

Shauna Burn's "Every Thought" could have quite a future, if perhaps the singing were a tad different. I listened to the album for two straight weeks until I could sing along to every song just to make sure I'd grasped every little breath the singer had taken. I'm what you could call obsessive about music. Her music is striking with the piano cascading through every song. Unfortunately, I just couldn't really get into this album. The lyrics just seemed to lead in circles and her enunciation of the song lyrics made the majority of the songs sound jumbled and noisy. Her voice, often likened to Sarah Mclaughlin, was torpid at best; reminding me of a watered down Loreena McKennitt. Perhaps it is unfair to judge her voice as weak. She met her match - the piano. It, like a jealous rival, drowns her out completely at times and at other points, seems to mock her inability to express feeling as well as it can. It was frustrating to hear her never unleash the full power of her gifted vocal chords though still a treat to listen to the ebb and flow of the music running its course.