You can feel Nicole’s stage presence in her opry-like tracks where she sounds so confident and mature. Even though she might be singing of heartache, her voice is so relaxed and soothing that you could mistake her serenades as lullabies. There’s a hint of maternal character in “Together We’re Both Alone” as she’s telling her man to leave.
Despite the pain in the lyrics (“I’m sitting over Neptune City / I used to love it / It used to be pretty”) of the title track, Nicole creates such touching harmonies. It’s weird how disparate Nicole’s music is in terms of how incongruous the many portions of her music are. This isn’t by chance, and it shows you how designed her music’s complexity is: “I think about all the different layers that will go on top of it.” Yet oddly, her music always seems just about right.
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1 - Laura in NJ
And if you want to know more about the lovely Nicole, read my cover story in the October 2007 issue of Upstage Magazine.