Lesley Roy shows her youthful exuberance in her debut album.  Right out of the gate she shows the power she can bring to the the music scene with a quick paced, hard rock pop type of sound.  She comes out with a clear and loud voice accompanied by some screaming guitars and a vibrant beat from the percussions.  It is pop, but too hard. It is rock, but the lyrics & arrangements are too popish.  However, she does bring these two worlds together into fairly good album (kind of like hair metal did in the 80's).

One thing you have to do besides to just listening to the music, is to take a gander at the lyrics that sometimes get lost within the power of the songs themselves.  Take "Slow Goodbye," for instance, is well written and luckily, the song is toned down a little bit so that you can appreciate the words being sung, as opposed to just getting caught up with the music itself.  But there are a few slow songs that show us a glimpse at the softer side of the soul of Lesley Roy such as in "Dead But Breathing" although the lyrics themselves in this song may be harsh, they are a ballad at the same time. This is a song where the arrangement and production played a great part in getting it right.

It is not until almost the end of the album that we get to my favorite track, "Come To Your Senses." It seems to be one of the more experimental songs on the album, and maybe even a filler, but it is the one song that really stuck with me after the first few times I listened to the album.

What I like most about Lesley Roy is that she is independent from the forces of today's music scene.  Whereas many artist stick to a genre, she seems to make her own rock/pop fusion music and has put her own imprint upon it.  I cannot criticize her by stating that she is too much like artist A or artist B, or maybe should try something different.  This is her music and she is doing what she wants with it.  You can also hear in her voice that she seems to enjoy what she is doing.  For her to turn pop or to turn rock might not make her happy.  For the scores of music listeners out there, they will either accept her as she is, or she will fade away like so many that have come before her.  However, I think that there is a place for Lesley Roy and her rock/pop fusion in today's music industry.  After too many years of everyone sound the same, followed by a rash of retro sounding artists, originality may the wave of the future.