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Joe returns with his 3rd album under Decca (4th overall) Here's What I Believe.
The album opens with the co-written title track (we review it a little earlier here) before we head into the first cover of the album in the form of Leo Sayer's When I Need You. From here, you can guess the album mood. To Have A Broken Heart is next up followed by the ever popular I Don't Want To Talk About It. Gene Pittney's Something's Gotta A Hold Of My Heart comes up next followed by Demi Loverto's Skyscraper but we can't help feel that there is something missing from this rendition...
How We Love is another cover but it's a duet with the original performer, Beth Nielsen Chapman, which works quiet nicely. Taking a break from the covers, we have another co-written track, Your Voice which seems to draw a little on the previous albums. A quick hop back onto the covers for I Look To You before we return back to the co-writing track of What Have I Done?. We then head into the guitar driven number of My Love Will Find You. Another driven track in the form of the Queen classic Love Of My Life. The last track on the album is an Italian number in the form of E Penso A Te where he shows that he's not forgotten his previous two offerings.
If you want, there is a deluxe version where you get another 3 tracks (Mayday, Silence Is The Loudest Cry (both of which are co-written by McElderry) and Rescue Us)
Looking at the album as whole, we're a little disappointed. Yes, McElderry delivers the tracks in a way that only he can but we have out doubts. Had the three tracks that were additional on the deluxe had been part of the standard version, we might have been a little happier. It would have been nicer to see an album a little fuller of his own material rather than being bulked out by covers. On a whole, most of the covers work out except for Skyscraper and Love Of My Life. There is just something missing from the tracks that Joe doesn't seem to bring to it. Sadly, we're just not sold with this one we're afraid.
Rating: 3/5
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