Album Review: Faith Healer Make Trying Something Worth Doing In Newest Album, Try ;-)

Faith Healer lives up to their name in new album, Try ;-). From the beginning, you feel like you entered a room filled with hot stones, candles, and flowery-scented massage oils readying to be poured on all the sides of you that feel strained such as, your heart or mind. Having that immediate ambiance cast over listeners helps them feel easy. While we all may say that we want to feel better, feeling easy or less tense about the things that rightfully stress us sounds like a perfect compromise, and Try 😉 gives you exactly that.

First, Faith Healer drips their melodies like candlewax, while their lyrics are the petitioned flames she lights in hopes that, again, things get easier. Better and easier can feel interchangeable, especially when your ultimate desire is to feel like life has gotten clearer in path and purpose. Thus, tracks like “Try”, “Might As Well”, “Such A Gemini”, and “2nd Try” frolic in rolling, 60’s psychedelic chords and every moment you told yourself “Why not? Who cares!”. Those two previous statements might be the quintessential statements to every time you felt so pushed back by life as an entity that you decide to take risks and be carefree. Those mind-frames and sentiments blossom through every song in Try ;-), and Jessica Jalbert has the voice to flourish them. If someone told me that Jalbert’s voice was made from a bath of lilies plucked from Heaven’s garden, I would believe it. She reminds you that it is not about the power of a voice as much as the empowerment behind it. Even as she utters her verses with the soft casualness of a strolled on a dawned beach, you feel bombarded by the coolness of her sound. In essence, if every singer’s goal is to be considered “cool”, and thus the best in their field, then they should consider Jalbert’s initiative of just being herself. She sounds genuine and gentle, which only amps up the psychedelic aspect of Faith Healer’s sound. With all the ranging keys and drums, a wormhole of sweet sound burrows through your ears with Jalbert coming off like your friends being sucked in, as well.

Overall, I give Try 😉 and A plus. I can do an “effort” pun, but I will refrain. Instead, I will happily admire and press play on album that oddly makes trying sound good and pleasing. Never in the history of life has “trying” as an act ever felt as comfortable or light like this record, which, once again, makes me admire Faith Healer even more. For More Information On Faith Healer and To Buy Try 😉 On September Click Here.