Vanessa Carlton - Heroes and Thieves [album]

Previous Post: I didn't realize that her third album was released on October 9, 2007. I was wondering if she was going to record again.

anyways, I looked up the lead single, "Nolita Fairytale" on Youtube and the best quality ws through the Universal Group Youtube account, and embedding the video was disabled. check it out if you want.

I really liked it, so I think I may try to pick up a copy of this album soon. may in Dec, for my christmas present.


Review: So I decided to pick up the album, as Wal-mart had it on sale for $9.88. The album opens with Nolita Fairytale, the lead single. It's a good song, and reintroduces Carlton as a more aggressive and independent person. Check out her music video for the song. I love the drum beat. It's a great return.



Hands on Me starts up and is immediate a little more brooding. The Orchestral backing evident in her previous albums have returned and a sense of comfortability is established. The layering of voices she had in her sophomore album, Harmonium is back and I love it.

Spring Street continues the mood set by Hands on Me. It's a tale of letting go, and moving on.

My Best is a little uplifting and somewhat nurturing. I think it suited the Spring Street well.

Come Undone is about telling someone you love them. It's sweet and short. I really dig how it doesn't try to explain and complicate meanings of feelings. It's straight forward as she sings

"The only one I come undone for is, I know I'm done, now I see the truth."

The One (with Stevie Nicks) - What?! She teamed up with Stevie Nicks?! Yup and their voices blend so well together. It's really a nice on the ears. Oh Stevie Nicks you rock.

Heroes and Thieves - the title track of the album, and of course it's catchy. The title alone is cool and the song is great.

This Time

Fools Like Me

Home is my favorite of the group. I've always thought the word "home" special in some way. When Angela Aki released her HOME single and then the album Home, I knew the word is about having a place that you belong to completely. It can be anywhere as long as you feel the most comfortable there. Nothing in this space makes your feel frustrated or alone. Carlton relates the idea to being in the presence of the one she loves. That's all she needs. I like that after she explains that some people have physical places they call home from a house on a hill or a boat sailing across the ocean, her place is next to this other person. She concludes the song by stating:

"with you all I know is,
I'm coming home,
coming home."

More than this is the final track and brings the end with a soft piano medley. She's ensuring that what she has to offer is all she has. She can't be more than this nor will she try. And anyone will begin to realize if they love her, they won't need anything more.This is a really beautiful song it's a perfect conclusion to the album.

"Let's make this our story,
let's live in the glory,
Time, it fade away,
precious as a song,
cause someday we'll be gone."

Here's a great article on Carlton and this album. It also reveals how she was signed to The Inc. Records...previously known as Murder Inc. Records of Ja Rule, and Ashanti fame. (you read right.)

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/25/vanessa.carlton.ap/index.html