Sam Bailey // The Power Of Love

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From the outset, Sam Bailey had been marked as a winner on the 2013 X Factor, and now she’s released her debut album, The Power of Love.

Opening with the title track, we’re reminded on how powerful Sam vocals are as she wastes no times in putting that voice to good use. Next it’s to Shania Twain’s From This Moment, which is a little odd hearing it as a solo effort instead of a duet, but Sam handles it without any trouble.Faith Hill’s There You’ll Be again allows that powerful voice to put to good use.

And I Am Telling You comes in as a duet with mentor Nicole Scherzinger which works to a point but with similiar vocals it’s hard to determine who is who at times. A beautiful string intro into Compass slows the tempo before heading into another slow number in Lord Is It Mine. This leads beautiful into a beautiful rendition of Oleta Adams hit, Get Here complete with strings and choir.

Treasure is another slow but powerful track before heading into a duet of Ain’t No Mountain High Enough with Michael Bolton, in which their vocals complement each other beautifully.Coming into the final tracks we have Superwoman before ending with what was her winner’s single Skyscraper, although we getting the feeling that it has had a little make over (it reminds us on the original Demi Lovato track vs. the Wizz Dumb Remix)

Overall, yes it’s an album of covers, and yes that does seem to be the standard for X factor Winners (Little Mix are the exception to this rule). Whilst beautiful sung, we can’t help thinking that there is too many songs making use of the fact that she has this big powerful voice. We’d have liked to have seen maybe one or two new tracks or maybe something a little softer to show another side of her. These things aside, it’s not a bad little number, but maybe a little more variety if next time comes around.

Rating: 4/5