Marie Digby
Unfold
EMI


During the first three tracks on this album, you might be tempted to label Marie Digby as average and mainstream. However, as the fourth track, Miss Invisible begins to play, you can't help wondering if there is indeed something special here. With heart-wrenching lyrics and sweetly haunting vocals, it really captures your attention. The piano is simple and beautiful, and the strings are a great touch. Unfortunately, once the drums kick in it starts to lose a bit of its sheen. The song would remain much more powerful without them.

From this track forward, the album seems to go downhill, and our earlier assumptions are proved correct. It's not that Digby can't sing, because she can. It's not that she can't write, either, because most of her lyrics are fairly well written for a first album. There just isn't much here that make her stand out amongst all the other famous pop artists of today.

The only other notable track on the album is Unfold. Lyrically, it's a masterpiece and could be a very powerful ballad, but ends up coming across as very bland and average due to the instrumentation. This song would have been better suited to the whispery vocal styling and gentle background accompaniment of Miss Invisible, to complement the rawness of the lyrics.

Digby gained notoriety on YouTube doing covers of various mainstream artists such as Linkin Park, Nelly Furtado, and Rihanna. Her cover of Umbrella is also on the album, though it's nothing to write home about. She really shows promise with Miss Invisible, it's just a shame that the rest of the album doesn't do her justice. In the future, let's hope she goes back to her roots and dazzles us with something really fantastic.

Laina Murray