Search - Adriana Evans :: Adriana Evans (Enhanced)

Track Listings
1. Love Is All Around
2. Seein' Is Believing
3. Heaven
4. Reality
5. Hey Brother
6. Trippin'
7. I'll Be There
8. Love Me Looking for Your Love
9. Swimming
10. Say You Won't
11. In the Sun

Editorial Reviews
The debut release from a 26-year-old Californian who blends jazz and soul with a smokey ease reminiscent of Sade, Deniece Williams, and Minnie Riperton is a satisfying album. Evans wrote all the lyrics, which often examine the gap between the way things should be and the way they are. The first single is "Reality," a jazzy, vibraphone-flavored track that finds Evans contrasting the world of poverty and violence outside her L.A. window with her dreamed-of utopia where she can find "my peace of mind." The likely follow-up single is "Seeing Is Believing," which boasts an irresistible singalong chorus, the stern admonition, "Don't say you love me if you're leaving," and a dreamy scat interlude where Evans seems lost between anger and desire. "Adriana Evans" marks the arrival of a major talent. --Geoffrey Himes