LN Heart - Colors

This album doesn't revolutionize anything.
Once you've put that down, and you've admitted it, you can start listening completely positively. Because there are reasons to revel in it. Lots of reasons.

Stage name LN Heart. LN are her initials (Lorine Nicolay), followed by Heart “because she does everything with her heart”.

How to describe his music? Overall, pop.
It's the beat that makes good pop and that attracts me and holds me and makes me want to go back to it. However, this beat must be well done and well dosed. Overstate it and it becomes chacapo and dance and I don't like it.
No risk here. Let's keep our fingers crossed that no remixer has the idea of butchering her tunes that already get everything to become popular ("Beautiful", "Colors"...)

However, this album isn’t pop only. Although LN is a pianist, the presence of guitars, whether electric or acoustic, takes us to other playgrounds: rock ("About Last Night"), country folk ("Who I Am"), soul-blues ("Reasons to Drink"), where her vocal qualities work wonders.
And then, and above all, "Free". I immediately fell in love with this song. Maybe because the intro, although on the piano, made me think of "Creep". Sometimes it comes down to a few things. Yet the rest of the track has nothing to do with "Creep", containing a wonderful Hispanic-Oriental guitar between the phrases, and a freedom that commands respect.
The bass is held by her dad (!) and a drummer completes the band.
Even if the arrangements are thick, it's full of very good little touches on the piano, motifs that are usually found in the intro and that will come back in the song ("By Her Window").

Obviously, we are in the presence of a powerful voice. So much so that her virtual acoustic duet on "Unravelling" from Muse, with Matt Bellamy on guitar, was spotted by the latter on social networks!
A voice that I would place in the register of a Beth Hart (and not Heart!), even if it does not yet contain as much experience as the organ of the Californian – also a pianist by the way.
Be careful not to sing too loudly, however, to avoid exaggerated note holdings with vibrato ("In the Rain"). You have to do it wisely. We understood that you know how to sing, no need to constantly demonstrate it, I want to advise her, in a friendly and benevolent wink. Of course, I know that there is an audience for this, as evidenced by the success of the American divas. I am not in that audience.
That said, it's convenient to know how to do it, I admit. A car capable of running at 130 mph will be much more comfortable at 50... than one that coughs at 60.

The lyrics address themes such as determination ("Colors"), self-assertion ("Who I Am") or try to console a teenage girl ("Beautiful"). It doesn't revolutionize anything, but it feels good, which is already strong enough for a debut album, allowing us to consider the best for the future.