CD Review for These Streets

Paolo Nutini Album Proves he has Talent

Apr 17, 2009 My Nguyen

With overtly melodramatic lyrics, Nutini is romancing the ladies with his killer looks and killer voice.

Barely legal and already wooing the ladies, Paolo Nutini shows he got what it takes to steal a show. And he does, selling sold-out concert one after another. It might be his good looks and show-stopping voice, but this kid proves again and again that he's got talent.

Male Rocker-Version of Janis Joplin

With a voice that could possibly dethrone “Back to Bedlam”, what Paolo Nutini’s debut album, “These Streets”, doesn’t lack is melodrama. With devastatingly lofty word play and repetition, these lyrics does just that—shallow you up with conventional verses. But Nutini is all about the emoting and in his new album he asserts his boyish-charm with bluesy ballads that contradicts his rocker image.

Born in Scotland to Italian parents, Nutini’s brooding voice roughly gauges the definition of the male rocker-version of Janis Joplin—but only once he drops the angelic choir-boy motif seen in such tracks as “Alloway Grove” and “White Lies”. Nutini’s voice, which nearly rises into a falsetto in such songs can unnerve a fan who is used to his more masculine sound in such tracks as “Last Request” and “Jenny Don’t be Hasty”.

Definite Hits for Paolo Nutini

Definite hits off the album like, “These Streets”, has older visages of historical UK. Favorite lines are where Nutini sings in the refrain: “These streets have too many names for me/I’m used to Glen Field road/And spending my time down in Orchy”.

Much like Adele’s “Chasing Pavements”, there’s an overall feel of love for the people and life in this archaic track. You can judge this bit of patriotism (or not), but for now we’ll just call this panoramic love—something that you won’t be seeing in any songwriters’ Mead notebook in the States.

Nutini’s latest hit, “Last Request” is a blusey ballad that definitely deserves its time in the limelight. Filled with angst and longing, this groove will certainly convince his girlie fans.

Paolo Nutini’s got Style

With killer looks and a killer voice, Paolo Nutini proves he got style, but with lyrics that honestly seem formulated from a how-to book, it seems like Nutini’s album is making its way on a long detour towards sensationalism.

But look out girls, Nutini certainly has the chemistry to become an idol. By looks alone he could dethrone Blunt, but don’t judge a book by its cover. This kids got talent, and there’s no denying that.

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