Music Reviews: New releases are a hit

 

No Plan is the last Extended Play album by musician David Bowie. It was released on January 8 2017, coinciding with what would have been Bowie’s 70th birthday. The songs “No Plan“, “Killing a Little Time” and “When I Met You” first appeared in the Broadway musical Lazarus and were originally recorded during the Blackstar sessions.

But going by the newly released “No Plan,” one of the last songs Bowie recorded, “My Way” continued to exert its spell as the terminally ill auteur faced the final curtain. It’s there in his fragmentary, bittersweet declarations, which build to a belted note in the chorus. “Here is my place without a plan,” he sings, in a faltering flourish of physicality that shakes the spirit to its foundations.

Even though Blackstar was one last calculated act, it’s a startling admission of acceptance and resignation from the master of reinvention. (Foolhardy as it is to read Bowie’s work as autobiography, you wonder if he left it off the record because it’s such a clear reckoning with his legacy.) On “No Plans,” he doesn’t pick over the highs and lows like Sinatra did, but simply establishes, “All the things that are my life: My moods, my beliefs, my designs/Me alone/Nothing to regret.”

 

Ed Sheeran’s new song called Castle on the Hill is a song about how at a young age, Sheeran was swept into bad habits with his brother’s friends. At 15 years old Sheeran and his friends began to drink and party a lot, a decision he would regret later. As they became older, things were harder because of what they did when they were younger.

I like this song because it has a calm tune and it’s catchy. This is the only song that I like from Ed Sheeran. Photograph, another song from him, does not tell a story. Like every other verse, he just repeats himself. In Wake Me Up his lyrics don’t make any sense like they don’t tell a story like music should Castle on the Hill song tells a story and most songs that come out today don’t do that.

 

Brantley Gilbert’s new album called “The Devil Don’t Sleep” was released on Jan. 27, 2017. He had several of successful albums in the past like: “Bottoms Up” (released in 2014), “Just As I Am” (released on May 19, 2014), and his most recent album single The Weekend (released July 22, 2016).

The song that I like from Brantley Gilbert’s new album is called The Weekend and Kick It In The Sticks I like these songs because they’re both good songs and it just two of his songs that I find pretty catchy. Personally The Weekend and Kick It In The Sticks are the only songs off Brantley Gilbert’s new album that I like.