Stepping Up
Posted March 16, 2009
By IronJedi,
Melissa Greene, half of the female membership of Avalon, makes her second foray into solo-dom with Next Step, on new label KOCH Records. The album treads variegated musical territory, while be interwoven together by the promise of and personal glimpses of God’s companionable presence and encouragement.
The songs of Next Step are wonderfully expansive compositions that exhibit spiritual steadfastness and are ably arranged to showcase Ms. Greene’s stratospheric vocal abilities. Ms. Greene is not bound by genre nor influenced by her Avalon experience; offering songs that range from unpretentious acoustic paeans to upbeat urban gospel and modern praise & worship to edgier pop-rock. Unfortunately, some of the songs of Next Step tend to stray into the territory of current hit radio- music epitomized by a routine and undistinguished sound.
Melissa Greene’s second solo effort is paradoxical in that it is effervescent and meditative. It strides a path that is defined by a miscellany of contemporary music and abiding, sacrosanct lyrics. Next Step should garner attention from fans of Natalie Grant and Nicole Nordeman, as well as fellow songstresses Kelly Mack, Nicole C. Mullen and Brooke Barrettsmith.
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