Album Life Coaching: A Review of Stephen Sanchez’s Debut In Romeo & Juliet Style
I miss romance in music. I miss those old, classic tracks that made you think love was the most gorgeous, cosmic event to ever occur. The way, lyrically, we use to describe love was so stunning, that I need to listen to music before I was born just to feel hope I can get it now. We do not talk about love in a way that make it both possible and prosperous. Stephen Sanchez’s Angel Face is a beautiful, tragic melodrama on how love sweeps you away.
With a fellow debut in Chappell Roan´s, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess, Sanchez is not the only artist giving off a cinematic ambience, but these movies are totally different. For one, Sanchez’s album plays off like a Romeo and Juliet … Baz Luhrmann style. There is a colorful, romantic danger in every track; painting the record like the tale of a troubadour star-crosses with a movie-star. He trades in his nomadic wonder to follow her like a drug, and, in the end, poisons himself with lovelorn decadence of falling for the impossible. Of course, that may sound romantic, but Romeo and Juliet is the titular romance to follow suit.
Sometimes, I wonder is the different approaches to love between 5 decades ago and now lies in life and death. R & J may have been deranged and deluded but they combusted with hope and magic, which I do not always think we feel, nowadays. Sanchez has a voice that, inherently, sounds like it sings to love. It is girded in earthy tones likes rubies planted with seeds to grow bejeweled trees. This man could sing the alphabet to Oscar The Grouch and get a smile from him. That innate ability to just captivate radiates the fact that he creates songs worth capturing.
