Today I will be reviewing Marion Raven's "Set Me Free". The album was her debut album in the U.S. and Europe while in other countries her debut album was "Here I Am". The album was more rock than anything she had released with her band "M2M" which sang pop music. "Set Me Free" was also made up of 3 new songs, 5 songs from "Here I Am", 3 songs from her ep "Heads Will Roll" and 1 song that was on both "Here I Am" and "Heads Will Roll". Here's my track by track review:
1) Set Me Free: The title track that should've been a single. The song is about wanting to be out of a relationship and be set free. It's an amazing song. 10/10
2) Falling Away: The first single from the album. It's an uptempo ballad where the narrator feels that her relationship is slowly falling apart. The video was show in the snow and many snowboarders where in the video such as Marion's then-boyfriend, now husband, Andreas Wiig. 10/10
3) Crawl: The song starts off slow with a piano before turning into an uptempo rock song. The song talks about how you thought the person you were with was amazing but as time went on, you realized just that person is like. Didn't like when I first heard it but a couple more listens and I was hooked on this song. 10/10
4) Here I Am: This was the third single and title track from Marion's "Here I Am". I'm pretty sure that she's talking about a relationship where the person you're with keeps making promises to you but keeps breaking them. It's an amazing ballad. 10/10
5) Thank You for Loving Me: We finally have a happy song! This is a love song that is about wanting to be with the one you love forever. It's a great song. 10/10
6) 13 Days: This is the song that was on both "Here I Am" and "Heads Will Roll". Marion has said that the song was about a boy who came to visit her. They had nothing to talk about, she felt he was boring, and she felt trapped in her own home. He also wrecked her car. On the plus side she wrote this awesome, haunting rock song about it. 10/10
7) Break You: The second single from "Here I Am". The song is the only song on the album that Marion did not co-write. You know the saying "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"? Well that this song is one of the reasons for that. You can feel her rage for the ex that screwed her over. The song almost rumored not to be on the album after it was covered by "Megan McCauley". Megan's version is pretty good though and in the end "Break You" was included on this album. It's a great song and had a great video. 10/10
8) Heads Will Roll: When I found out that this song had a video I was shocked. Not because I didn't like it because I do, but because I didn't know it was re-recorded. The re-recorded version of the song, which was the version put on this song, is a million times better than the original. Also there are two versions of the video. I'm going to leave it at that. 10/10
9) For You I'll Die: This song was inspired by the love that was shared by "Jim Morrison" and "Pamela Courson". In fact Marion wrote the song after reading his biography. It's a beautiful ballad. 9/10
10) At the End of the Day (featuring Art Alexakis from Everclear): This song is the most pop sounding song on the album. Marion wrote the song about the first time she fell in love. It's an okay song but I would've preferred "End of Me" being on this album in this song's place. 7/10
11) All I Wanna Do is You: This song kinda reminds me of "Jet's" song "Are You Gonna Be My Girl". It's a pretty straight forward song. I don't really listen to this song. 6/10
12) Let Me Introduce Myself (Acoustic): This is hidden track on the album. Marion recorded an acoustic version of the song because she didn't feel the version on "Here I Am" had the essence of the song. The song is about her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend. 10/10
Three years after this album was released, Marion released a new single called "Flesh and Bone" which followed up with another single called "Found Someone". The songs were set to be on her album, "Nevermore". I loved the songs and was excited for the album. Unfortunately the album wasn't released. Some rumors were that Marion didn't release it because she didn't like the finished product and other are that her label dropped her. Either way, "Nevermore" was shelved with only the two singles being released and a snippet of a song called "Heartless" that was leaked onto the internet. Despite it being shelved, rumors are that a few people were able to get the songs and I'm so jealous. Anyway back to the review. I like all the songs on the album. Out of 120 points I give the album 112 points which is 93%, an A. Thank you for reading this review!
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