Layla Minou – The Pink Parade

Releasedate: 03-07-2009; Label: Imusic Rec (Intergroove)
By: Nina Mende

A 21-year old rock chick tries to enter music business and now released her debut album to come a little closer to her goal. There’s not much to tell about Layla Milou yet. She is very new in the business and let’s see how far she’ll make it.

The album cover has Layla on it. More a picture you would maybe put in your MySpace gallery instead of your album cover. No high quality super reworked pictures. There are more pictures in the booklet, but none of them looks very professional either. The music doesn’t sound like that either but is more in a line with the style of the pictures: a little bit of everything we have seen before, mixed together in a not really professional way nor with any kind of structure or clear line. All this doesn’t necessarily mean it’s all bad. When you press play on your CD player you can hear some girly rock, maybe even punk rock which soon fades into pop or playground/kids songs. Layla seems to try every style on this album: singing soft, harsh, shouting, squeaking, speaking and regular singing. Some songs are quite danceable. To others you can jump along on your bed as in all the teenage movies. “I Do Myself” is a quite weird song, lyric wise and music wise. “I’m Armed” begins very romantic before it starts to rock. There is also a cover on this album: “Be My Baby”. You can tell it’s her first album, because the voice is still cracking at some parts and she sometimes gets off tune. But maybe that’s all on purpose.

Who knows. I guess we have to wait and see.

Tracklist: 1. I Do What I Always Like To Do 2. Cinderella’s Dream 3. Smooth Operator 4. We Rock The House 5. L.A. 6. I Do Myself 7. I’m Armed 8. Be My Baby 9. Happy 10. I Miss You 11. Funfair 12. We Go Wild 13. I Can Feel You Near Me

Links:

Layla Milou MySpace
Layla Milou Official