MUSIC - Carina Round, "Slow Motion Addict"

Carina Round may be a talented singer, but when she acts like a petulant girl who wants to scream and show off her range in the same breath, she’s not a very pleasant one. For the majority of her album Slow Motion Addict, she’s stuck in a blend of dance, rock, and pop—a rather large niche these days—and none of them work for her. Her voice, even at its fleshiest and raspiest, can’t compete with the drums and guitar at full strength, and her beautiful falsetto is fragile enough that it could drown in an inch or two of water. When she gets to her titular roots and slows the action down, the mellow tracks are mellifluous, and it turns out that for all her catchy production techniques, she actually has stuff to say.

Read on at [Silent Uproar]