Album Review: Twain Shows Life Is Filled With A “Rare Feeling”
It is too easy to make the Willie Nelson comparison with Twain. He shares the icon’s lax persona as he vocally chills through emotional rough patches. Twain slows rock n’ roll spirits to catch the issues that make them move. Blessed with a powerful voice, Rare Feeling, is a look into the insecurities and rough situations that make a rolling stone roll.
Rare Feeling is an exceptional album because it is perfectly and delectably composed for your sonic absorption. Simply chorded melodies wave around like flags in tracks, “Freedom From Doubt” and “Good Old Friend”, as if Twain understood that going deep into your soul should not require too much sound. Instead, entering darkness, should be silent endeavor so that, when light enters, its shimmers can be heard. Hence, you journey with Twain in songs such as, “Sorcerer”, “Dear Mexico (Thank You For Joyce)”, and “Black Chair” to see life according to his inquisitive and even mournful eyes. He artfully displays the melancholic beauty of falling in love with a person you know will leave you or a simple, rainy day, and turns his voice into a sonic wrap that swaddles you with its range and loveliness. I say with total sincerity that Twain has one of the most beautiful voices, currently, in the industry, which makes his intellectual swims into grief, love, death, self-destruction, and self-awareness feel so potent. To hear him is to hear a star being born.
Twain’s high notes feel like gut-punches making you cry from their soulful realness. Whether you feel so happy or you feel so sad and self-loathing, we all know what it is to wish tomorrow never came. Yet, both extremes are a rare feeling. Hence, twain’s album is more than gorgeous, it is wise and telling. For however bad or good things get, life is fleeting in all situations and sentiments, which is why his songs are moderatos of motivation. To invest in this record, is to invest in the lessons needed to lead a fuller life. For More Information On Twain And To Buy Rare Feeling On October 20 Click Here.
