{"id":29906,"date":"2013-04-08T10:01:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T10:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-allison-weiss-say-what-you-mean\/"},"modified":"2018-03-17T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T15:15:03","slug":"album-review-allison-weiss-say-what-you-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-allison-weiss-say-what-you-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Allison Weiss – Say What You Mean"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s been a long time since I’ve had an album on so repeatedly. Normally when I listen to a new album, and I like it, I’ll listen to it once or twice a day. However, in this instance, it’s been a case of a minimum of 5 times a day and I can’t imagine listening to much else right now.\u00a0Allison Weiss’<\/strong> second album <\/span>‘Say What You Mean’<\/em> is the perfect album of indie rock gems. Yes, perfect.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe it’s come at the right time for me. A time when all the lyrics seem to be so relevant and personal to my own life that I wonder if somebody is recording my lonely days at home, eating PBJ sandwhiches in the bath, for a mass audience to enjoy in a Truman Show style escapade. How else could lyrics such as “Tell me that I’m making it up and I’ll leave you alone” <\/em>and “I’m the kind of person who waits right through the rain\/Guess you’re the kind of person who runs and hides and blames it on the hole in your heart"\u00a0<\/em>not be about my life?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well that’s Weiss<\/strong>’ undeniably catchy charm; storytelling. Honest, heart on your sleeve story telling that churns on your heart strings and plucks each one with such sweet melodies that you’d forget your heart’s a broken array of shards on the floor. It’s evident in every song and the aforementioned lyrics from ‘Making It Up’<\/em> and ‘Hole In You Heart’<\/em> respectively are both songs on the\u00a0disappointing, gut wrenching side of love. It’s not all doom and gloom though as ‘One Way Love’<\/em> shows a positive side to that mysterious feeling we’ll all experience at some point.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lyrically there’s a lot of depth and the magic here is the honesty and how relatable they are; that’s what makes a good story teller. Luckily though Allison Weiss<\/strong> is the whole package and comes complete with song writing talents for the same price. All these lyrics are given the proudest of\u00a0<\/span>pedestals\u00a0to perch on, pedestals of neatly constructed riffs, chords and progressions that scream this pop sensibility.\u00a0<\/span>Pop songs are so simple and that’s no criticism, ever. You don’t need a lot to write something that’s incredibly infectious and that’s exactly the flu that Weiss<\/strong> has. <\/span><\/p>\n

But this isn’t Top Of The Pops. This is a brilliant No Sleep Records<\/strong> artist to join the army of talented individuals within the roster, sharing the same passion for music. The same passion that Weiss<\/strong> pours in from her bucket heart. There’s so much for her to give and you can experience a shining example on ‘How To Be Alone’<\/em> as she sings "All the time"\u00a0<\/em>with each phrase taking a little bit more strain as the song slows down to an end.<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t find a fault with this record. It’s so simple but should be the latest musical epidemic in equal measure. I challenge you to not find something to relate to in this album. I challenge you to not hum along to any of the songs once you’ve worked your way through the album. I challenge you to not have this in your albums of the year come December.<\/span><\/p>\n

5\/5<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Say What You Mean’<\/em> by Allison Weiss<\/strong> is out on the 16th April on No Sleep Records<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Allison Weiss links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Words by Mikey Brown (@MikeyMiracle<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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