Alison Solo

Alison Solo
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Alison Solo is a British-Canadian Singer, Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She was born in London, England and emigrated to Ontario, Canada at the age of three. Alison self financed and recorded her first album, ‘Sakaita’, under the name ‘Alison Jane’ in 2008. Since then Alison also worked as a studio/session guitarist and backing vocalist for various studios and producers in the Toronto scene. She also toured in the United States with ex-INXS frontman JD Fortune as a live vocalist. In 2018, Alison returned to England and lived there for one year. During this period she rediscovered her British rock roots, and set about writing, producing and recording her current album ‘Plutonian’. The album was recorded in England and in Canada, and is reflection of her heritage and influences from both sides, resulting in a unique hybrid record. The album was mixed by Ron Nevison and released digitally via Bandcamp on 21 st April 2020. “
This is the second album Solo has released but the first under this name and the nine tracks here make up a rather laid back affair like the languid acoustic Blues of opener ‘American Dream’ which bursts into life a just before the two minute mark before falling back again. It’s a nice introduction to the album.
There’s a lot to like about this release especially if you connect with Solo’s clean vocal. ‘Chiron’ for example is pretty infectious and deceptively simple till the breakdown which twists it into something more complex in construction; whilst cryptic ‘Glass Window’ adds gentle hints of psychedelia before getting a little Grungy .
Deeper in you’ll love tracks like my high-point here ‘Sister Rosetta Tharpe’ which immediately connects and rides a great groove all the way home. Then there’s the Black Crowes-like ‘Last One Standing’ and the Stonsey ballad ‘old English’ which is a wonderful way to close.
If I have one criticism it’s that I’d have loved this to have sounded a little rawer, but vocally and musically this is a serious shot in the arm. She’s up there with Ms. Fish in my book.

TRACKLIST: 1. American Dream | 2. Chiron | 3. Glass Window | 4. Beautiful And Old | 5. Interlude – What You Hide Can Hurt You | 6. Sister Rosetta Tharpe | 7. Vanishing Twin Syndrome | 8. Last One Standing | 9. Old English

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Category(s): Reviews Tags: Alison Solo , blues
Vancouver vanisher varnishes her raw nerve with arresting tunes yet, in search of identity, never stays in one place
“Won’t you pray,” implores Ms Solo at the end of this album, and she doesn’t do so either, but the assertiveness of Alison’s sophomore effort, issued a whopping dozen years after her debut “Sakaita” – and the time spent away turned the Canadian into a mature performer. Don’t be fooled by her waif-like looks because, while wistful motifs feel inherent to Solo’s songs, it’s blues, rather than folk, that drives them. Even though Alison will refer to the source of it all in “Sister Rosetta Tharpe” – with a roaring emphasis on the “I ain’t no back up girl” refrain – and deliberately let poetic imagery cloud the meaning of romantic pieces such as “Old English” where pictures of her homeland dictate the narrative, she wouldn’t mince words when the present is concerned.
Opener “American Dream” may not be a protest number per se, what with Solo invoking the spirit of Grace Slick to bring up social context, yet once Alison sweeps her tender six-string strum with an acidic electric wave, the singer’s silky-to-velvet vocals – which have been building up to a choir until that point – become a voice of the generation. She’s less defying in “Last One Standing” whose lyrics reveal a great deal of vulnerability, only the organ-oiled, irresistibly infectious roll of “Chiron” should unfold the whole broad, and bold, spectrum of her talents as both writer and multi-instrumentalist, thrown into focus by Ron Nevison’s mix.
A tad theatrical in “Beautiful And Old” – an anthem that’s equally fragile and robust in terms of its piano-rippled and guitar-riven sound and life-affirming in terms of mood, and bolstered with the boisterous “What You Hide Can Hurt You” interlude – Alison Solo is nevertheless sincere throughout this brilliant record. If the artist manages to not walk away from music again, she’s bound to go far and fly high.

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