Just because Silvas can reach every note on the musical scale with her voice doesn’t mean that her doing so all the time will sound any good. The fact that she seems more controlled culminates in a more mature feel to the album, more accomplished.  Full text...

Same Side is a much better album than Breathe In. It’s more confident, richer in diversity and a great deal more lively. There are fewer Dido-esque ballads and a much greater sense of vibrancy.  Full text...

There's a depressing inevitability about much of the current batch of singer/songwriters 'gracing' the charts and airwaves. Yet one of the more accomplished is Lucie Silvas, who continues to deliver her own songs with an untempered, undecorated emotion. She's no slouch on the piano either, a quality that caught the eye of Sir Elton John soon after the release of her debut album.  Full text...

With this new set, however, she's brought in producer Danton Supple, the man behind Coldplay's X & Y. The result is cleaner (no fussy orchestration), and Silvas sounds genuinely engaged. Even the powerhouse ballads have an intimacy, with the best tracks, in particular 'Last Year', co-written with 1970s music goddess Judie Tzuke.   Full text...