Katherine McPhee - Unbroken reviews
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| Boston |
 Despite being only 25 years old, Katharine McPhee has gone through three musical incarnations. The runner-up on season five of “American Idol’’ was a big-voiced belter. Post “Idol,’’ she morphed into a dance-floor pop tart whose identity was lost amid calculated songs and star producers. With her first record for Verve Forecast, the newly blond McPhee transforms into a straight-up pop singer with an ache in her voice and a newfound focus. “Unbroken’’ is a conventional set, at times too much so, with a stripped-down musical backdrop of acoustic guitars and piano. McPhee has smartly reined in her vocal approach to find the nuances of the lyrics without trying to raise the roof. The songs, a healthy six of which she co-wrote, deal with longing, emptiness, and pained love. The disc is at its best when it avoids formulaic exercises like “Had It All,’’ which the cliche-loving Kara DioGuardi copenned. When McPhee lets the lyrics breathe, she shines; on the title track, the requisite big ballad, she finds its center and gives it a soul. The cover of “Brand New Key’’ is a mistake since McPhee misses the song’s loopy whimsicality. Otherwise, McPhee version 3.0 works. (Out tomorrow) KEN CAPOBIANCO...full text |
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| Ew |
The Idolrunner-up's pleasant-but-unremarkable vocals can't elevate this tepid collection. The moody visuals of ''Keep Drivin' '' fit the breathier parts of her range well, but too many tracks are victims of oversinging: Katharine McPhee is aiming for ''quirky'' with Unbroken but landing in ''musical-theater ingenue aiming for quirky'' instead. Worse, what is potentially the most interesting song here (''Last Letter'') is hollered almost entirely off pitch. Uh, dawg? C+
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| Billboard |
| Searching, one presumes, for a bit of the post-pop respectability that fellow singer/actor Mandy Moore has found of late, former "American Idol" contestant Katharine McPhee tapped John Alagia (who oversaw Moore's 2007 album, "Wild Hope") to produce the bulk of her sophomore release, "Unbroken." It's a good match. McPhee sounds much more comfortable amid Alagia's rootsy singer/songwriter settings than she did surrounded by the shiny R&B beats of her self-titled debut, much of which was helmed by former Timbaland protégé Danja. That shouldn't come as a surprise, given the success she had on "Idol," where she sang material like "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree." McPhee takes co-writing credit on about half of the set's 13 tracks, but plenty of pros crop up as well. Among them are "Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi, who helped pen jangly lead single "Had It All," and Paula Cole's cerebral soulfulness also informs the album's title cut....full text |
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