GABRIELLE
A Place In Your Heart (BMG)
From the 90s to now, Gabrielle’s smooth, catchy r’n’b has never failed to hit its mark or ever really gone out of vogue. Take her poignant new single Sorry, also A Place In Your Heart’s album opener: both soulful and remarkably apt for these tense times, Sorry has a timeless feel and will surely garner some serious radio play from now until oblivion.
Regarding A Place In Your Heart as a whole, Ian Barter – whose other credits include Paloma Faith and Amy Winehouse – continues as producer and co-writer, a role that helped make Gabrielle’s 2021 album Do It Again a huge success: this successor could be described as carrying on where Do It Again left off, with heavy-hitting, soulful earworms from the aforementioned Sorry to mid-album cuts Change and Rainbow. That old adage comes to mind: why fix what’s not broken?
words DAVID NOBAKHT
