'Before I Sleep' is the debut album of 'The Voice UK' runner up, a songstress with a gorgeous voice, Bo Bruce.
The album gets off to a good start in 'Landslide', a song which begins to set the tone for the album. Her next two songs 'Save Me' and 'Alive', both singles are also fairly strong powerful songs which is impressive given the frailty of her voice. What happens next is something that tends to happen with a lot of albums that you might listen to with certain female vocalists with divine voices, you become lost into her voice. Except for two songs, I can't actually tell how the other songs went because I don't remember them. This isn't because they're bad songs, it's because as a listener I become entranced by the heavenly quality of Bo's unusual voice, much like when I listen to 'Ceremonials' by Florence and the Machine. There are people that will consequently find the album boring, it really is all about your taste in music.
The music complements her voice but fails to be enough to produce a top 40 single. When Bo is making her next album, she should pay more attention towards making sure the music and the lyrics of her songs are catchy enough to make it in the mainstream world of music, a world that given she went onto a national singing show, she is eager to get into.
In conclusion, Bo's voice is something truly special and ethereal but her problem is similar to Jessie Ware's, she needs to become friends with an excellent producer who will really help to showcase her beautiful voice for the music buying public of today. In any case, this is a name that people should watch out for and this debut album is one of her truly exciting stepping stones.
8/10
Click here to watch the music video for her debut single 'Save Me'
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