Unlike any of the records he's cut since 2006's Wanna Be Your Joe, there are no attempts at a slick crossover pop hit (although the excellent, propulsive, hooky "Good as Gone" could have been an AM pop hit in another time): there are blues stomps, raunchy guitar riffs, and ballads dressed in dobros. A shade rougher and rowdier than anything he's ever recorded - he goes so far to sing a cheerfully profane chorus on the closing "Stomp" - Change My Mind succeeds largely because Billy Ray allows himself to lay back and rock out, lets himself revel in the noise he's making. Unexpectedly, 2012's Change My Mind - the sequel to his toothlessly jingoistic but nonetheless amiable 2011 set I'm American - finds the right groove, one that's not too slick, not too loose, one that showcases Cyrus' everyman skills to an appealing effect. In his spare time, he enjoys reading books and listening to music.ĪLfie is a dedicated father to his now 13-year-old son, Evawwen and a loving husband to Kathryn Mella, who herself moonlights also as a writer aside from holding a degree in Bachelor of Arts, Major in Sociology.Ever since his daughter Miley became a superstar in the late aughts, Billy Ray Cyrus has been doggedly working at a comeback, attempting album after album, none of them quite the right showcase for his unassuming charms. In 2016, aLfie published Part One (Literature & Languages and Their Cultural Significance) of his Essay Series, Can You Hear the Sound of a Falling Leaf? in 2021, his first book of poetry, Pag-íhip sa Dáhon ng Kahápon. He started writing album reviews for Cryptic Rock in 2015. He works full-time at a healthcare institution, while serving as the associate contributing editor of Filipino Journal-a local community newspaper in Winnipeg-tackling Literature, Languages, Cultures, Lifestyles, and Music.ĪLfie has been a music journalist since the mid-’90s for various print magazines as well as websites.
In 2003, aLfie migrated to Canada he has since been living in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was the frontman of the ’90s-peaking Philippine Alternative Rock / New Wave band Half Life Half Death, which released a full-length album and several singles on Viva Records.ĪLfie worked at Diwa Scholastic Press as an editor/writer of academic textbooks and supplementary magazines, focusing on Science & Technology and English Grammar & Literature. The ensuing “Some Kind of Love” returns the album to its acoustic Folk predisposition, only to bounce back into its hypnotic, trippy mood as the title track plays next.Īfter rendering the playful, tuneful, upbeat, and cheery “Mad Love,” Dido then delivers the piano-oriented Baroque Pop “Walking By,” whose cascading and icy rhythm may remind the initiated of Enya’s “Orinoco Flow.” Then there is the soulful, spacey, and loungy little Dance tune called “Friends,” reminiscent of some of Everything but the Girl’s similarly styled tracks, like “Missing,” in particular.īorn in 1971, in Metro Manila, Philippines, aLfie vera mella is a healthcare worker, singer/songwriter, and editor/writer. “Take You Home” then takes the listener further into the dance floor, conjuring images of sweaty-skinned couples cutting into the hazy smoke caused by the fog machine there in the laser-lit discotheque. The lyrically provocative “You Don’t Need a God” follows in the same pulse and heartbeat-waving, undulating, and thematically inspiring. The mood and the beat change drastically with the ensuing “Hell After This”-a minimal, graceful Dance tune, back-boned by a drum loop and effectively made organic by the acoustic guitar plucks and a combination of strings and horns. The slow, piano-led “Give You Up”-the album’s first single-follows next in smooth transition. Still On My Mind opens with the eerie and entrancing buildup of “Hurricanes,” which is founded on steady guitar plucks and subtle Electronica orchestration. Released on March 8, 2019, on BMG Records UK, Dido’s fifth displays once again her love of Folk as well as of Hip Hop and Electronic Dance Music. After her successful debut, four albums followed-the Trip-Hop-flavored Life for Rent of 20’s Safe Trip Home, 2013’s Electropop-styled Girl Who Got Away, and the latest, Still On My Mind.
The chart-topper “Stan” contained a sample of Dido’s single “Thank You,” which consequently catapulted to becoming also a worldwide hit, reaching number-three on both the United States and the U.K.īorn on December 25, 1971, in Kensington, London, England, Dido is now regarded as one of the female luminaries of the contemporary British Pop music scene. However, in the year that followed, Dido became a household name after the American Rapper/Hip Hop artist Eminem’s single “Stan” went to number-one on the United Kingdom’s music charts. The angelic-voice and faced singer known as Dido released her debut album, No Angel, relatively quietly in 1999.
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