Album Review: Cory Chisel And Adriel Denae’s “Tell Me True” About Love And Time
Every love story has a beginning, middle, and end. The most frustrating thing about loving someone is knowing that the deeper you fall for them; the harder it is to rise from the inevitable end to that relationship. Yet, not every relationship’s end is dark. Moreover, relationships end, but the bonds we form with someone transform and transfigure through eternity. I make this marked difference because acclaimed singer songwriters, Cory Chisel and Adriel Denae, use their new album Tell Me True, to sing to the bonds we make with people that imprinted upon our hearts even if they walked away.
When you are singing to the ones you have and will always love, you have an inherent romanticism to your sound. Nothing like nostalgia to make love appear like a sad dream as in “Hard Leaving Love”, “Lose Our Way” , and “Be Well Beyond Your Years”. Each track uses love like water and time like salt; though they blend together easily, they take away the other’s ease to be absorbed by humanity. Somehow, the finiteness of love can creep in to distract from how “forever” it can make you feel as in, “Songbird” and “Deeper Love”. Chisel and Denae represent the the match and play between love and time by having a pair of voices that are divine in harmony. Denae’s voice is like wind while Chisel’s is like smoke. Again, another blend that beautifully symbolizes things that fit together, automatically, change each other’s form and manifestation. When they sing apart, they truly feel like two separate entities, but when they come together, they transform into this singular being of pain and pleasure. “Southern Arms”, “Spend It All”, and “Just Pleasing You” are a few examples of how ,in vocals and lyrics, Chisel and Denae use Tell Me True as an emblem and epitaph to love; here lies the greatest virtue to make you feel both poor and rich, all at once. With solely acoustics as their back-drop, the album plays like a quiet memory of bliss projecting through your mind to make you smile and cry at its wonder.
Tell Me True might be the most perfect album to hit the highway. With guitars and aired voices, Cory Chisel and Adriel Denae’s Tell Me True feels like desert winds dancing between your fingers and heart as you drive down love’s long, winding road. With more stars above you than humans around you, its just you and nature as you drive. Yet, in Tell Me True, nature is more than your surroundings; it is also your relationships. With the wind, comes the ones that got away, the ones that stayed, and the only one that is left to love: yourself. For More Information On Cory Chisel and Adriel Denae And To Buy Tell Me True On August 4 Click Here.
