Kathleen Edwards: Asking For Flowers – Music Review

The Canadian singer-songwriter hasn’t failed to deliver a good album in all three of her releases.  Asking For Flowers (her third studio album) continues to show off all her composition skills as well as her overall musicianship.   While her two previous albums were very good, her third album is easily her best.  It’s rare you find an album with honest and vulnerable lyrics.  Kathleen Edwards delivers just that and it’s a very nice change from the usual lyrics you here that are being currently written. The first track on the album “Buffalo” immediately pulls in the audience.  Starting off the album with a slow song isn’t usually done.  Usually an up-tempo song is known to better grasp an audience than a slower song, but Kathleen’s musicianship was all she needed to pull her audience in.  “Buffalo” shows off her newly acquired piano skills, and her unique vocals.  Edward’s taught her self to play piano specifically for this record.

Kathleen Edwards’ lyrics can be so simple in some songs and so detailed in others, yet they’re always good and intriguing lyrics.  In “The Cheapest Key” her lyrics sound very basic yet very straight forward, “A is for all the times I bit my tongue / B is for bullshit and you fed me some” While the lyrics look simple, se puts meaning behind her lyrics.

“Alicia Ross” is one of the more powerful songs on the album.  The song is about a young adult that gets murdered by her neighbor.   This song shows all of Kathleen Edward’s range in songwriting.  She can write break-up songs like “The Cheapest Key” to powerful story songs like “Alicia Ross”, to songs with more of a political purpose behind them like “Oil Man’s War”.

The album is very diverse, it’s hard to put it into a genre.  It definitely has a country feel to it, but it carries a folk-rock feel with it.  I’d find it very hard for someone to truly dislike this album as a whole. While there might be certain tracks one can dislike, I think with the diversity this album holds, it’s almost impossible to dislike this album.  There’s at least one track that everyone can relate to.

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Author: Ilya Setrakian