Little Leviathan

Little Leviathan Artist: Michelle Lewis
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 075992470421
EAN: 0075992470421
ASIN: B000009OPN


Release Date: 1998-08-11

Little Leviathan


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Tracks:

  1. Nowhere And Everywhere
  2. Homesick
  3. Loaded
  4. Outside
  5. January's Child
  6. Liquid Heart
  7. Mr. Marigold
  8. Ground Zero
  9. Everyday Alien
  10. Storytellers
  11. Dig Me Out
  12. Poor Dead William

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Amazon.com

Here we go again. Add Michelle Lewis to the long, tired list of female singer/songwriters with acceptable vocal skills and passively interesting lyrical content. Her voice is similar to Juliana Hatfield's, with a little Meredith Brooks swimming around in the lower register. The most this album can offer is Friday-night background music for college freshman girls casually perfecting their pop vibrato in the forgiving acoustics of a dormitory bathroom. <I>Little Leviathan</I> is a girl-power brown-out at best. But this isn't a reason to condemn the album. The reason this album is condemnable is that Lewis is no street-urchin musical newbie. She's the daughter of saxophonist Morty Lewis. She has reasonably impressive songwriting credentials and associations with well-known musicians. She was smart enough to enlist Steve Fisk as producer for this record. And although the album is indeed perfectly produced, entirely inoffensive, and even pleasing, at this stage of the game, there is just no reason in the world to make <I>another</I> album of this type after Alanis Morissette, Jewel, Paula Cole, Sarah McLachlan, Joan Osborne, Tracy Bonham, Melissa Etheridge, and all the others have been there and done that to death. <I>--Beth Bessmer</I>

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Amazing songs of Michelle Lewis.......2001-09-29

"Little Leviathan" is one of the few cd's in my collection that I consciously replay time after time. The lush sound of her music is captivating and compels you to sit and listen. Her musical understanding and mastery of lyrical composition is astounding.

In all of her songs, Michelle has woven a rich tapestry of lyrics and music which I find quite uncommon. Michelle's songs showcase her talent from somber tunes such as "Outside" to more coloured tunes like "Loaded".

In short, Michelle Lewis has a talent for constructing songs that have perfect balance between music and lyrics. I've lent "Little Leviathan" to several friends and I have yet to find anyone that disagrees. This is an excellent recording to add to anyone's collection.

5 out of 5 stars Good at first, and it grows on you.......2000-06-30

The "professional" reviews of this CD I've read are just plain wrong. I don't care about Miss Lewis' credentials or lineage, I care about whether I enjoy a CD or not. I've gotten much more than my money's worth listening to these tunes, and I believe most people would. There are some songs you like immediately (January's Child), and some which get better as you listen to them (Loaded), but as you listen your enjoyment will evolve into an appreciation for this budding artist's writing and voice that transcends the poppy hooks and clean production values. I hope her next album is low budget and a bit harder edged, but I plan to buy it nonetheless.

3 out of 5 stars Strong but not unique........2000-03-24

Lewis' record "Little Leviathan" is a fair effort, but it seems a tad pedestrian considering some of the other singer/ songwriters out there. There is very little to recommend it over, say, the last Shawn Colvin record. (Coincidentally, Colvin compatriot John Leventhal produces "Homesick" on the disc). I don't understand the Alanis Morrisette comparisons. (Not being an admirer of Ms. Morisette in the least, I think it's an insult to Lewis' vision as an artist).

Still "Nowhere and Everywhere" should have been a top ten single and "Homesick" has teeth enough to be convincing. The touching "Poor Dead William" and narrative "Outside" (is that in 6/8 time?-nice!) are standouts along with the two previously mentioned tracks.

If Lewis steps out of the shadow of her influences and producers I could see her creating a serious album of beauty and depth. (I mean for this to be a three 1/2 stars record, but Amazon doesn't allow for finer distinctions than one star).

5 out of 5 stars The Perfect CD.......1999-11-10

Okay, so Michelle Lewis isn't a household name - yet. But if you listen to her music you can't deny that she should be soon! I heard Nowhere and Everywhere in the fall of 1998, and it soon became my anthem. I got the CD in the spring and I still love it! She isn't writing about the same pathetic lost love stories, she's writing about feeling alienated, and not by smashing into walls in overdone music videos. I don't think any other artist really captures lonliness in such a subtle, creative way. She's a storyteller, and she's telling some terrific stories.

4 out of 5 stars

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