Blend is still quite good, tuning still together overall. Maybe it's that I miss some of last year's powerhouse voices who graduated. Maybe the arrangements didn't impress me as being as original as on the previous album. I suspect my problem is that the Chattertocks set a very high bar for themselves, and this CD doesn't quite measure up to the high expectations I have left over from their earlier work. Not to say this is overall a weak album.
Some parts are strong, and some are simply lacking a little something.
Strong solos of note are Show Me Love and The Ladder . The hidden track, the Spice Girls' Spice Up Your Life , is far and above my favorite track on the CD, purely by virtue of it being the most fun of all the tracks. It's the one song that sounds like they're genuinely enjoying what's happening. A good album - no better, no worse. Brown's Chattertocks have done it again - they've created a CD that grabs you and makes you listen to it, then stays in your CD player a lot longer than your average a cappella album.