Album Review: Gabriella Cohen - Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love

The short critique is this is a great album and you should buy and listen to it.

The long version is that Gabriella Cohen's second album is as good as second albums get. Clearly brought up on a rich and eclectic mix of music, Cohen channels all sorts of influences from the Stones, Stan Getz and Blondie, to more contemporary artists such as Caitlin Rose, Cass McCombs and Widowspeak. Sometimes many of Cohen's influences will be contained all within the one track, take for example Baby, which starts off in the '60s and ends in the '90s, a-la Reel Big Fish. There's the hard-to-place tracks such as Change and Hi Fidelity, which capture how good a voice Cohen has, and what a great songwriter she is, without any hint of self-consciousness. It's a boon that contradicts a relatively young artist whose recording approach seems well beyond her years.

Production is slick, even though it's very layered DIY, and was part-recorded on tour in Europe and the Americas. Although Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love wouldn't be out of place in the American LA or NY market, the fact that Cohen hails from Oz makes it even better.