Blossom
Self-Released, 2019
8/10
A quickly rising Nashville artist, the Ohio born Karissa Ella delivers 6 tunes of breezy and timeless melodica on this 2nd EP of country-pop sounds.
“Vacay” starts the listen with strummed acoustic guitars and pop melodies as Ella’s sweet pipes put a nice sugary coat on the country influenced tune, and “Intoxicating” follows with hand clapping fun in a playful setting.
Elsewhere, “Rose All Day” illustrates a more diverse angle for the young songstress with an elegant, easy listening track, and the more sparse “More Like Her” showcases her youthful and flawless pipes with strategic pedal steel. The quick listen ends on “Levi Jeans”, where a universal memorableness in the anthemic country-pop tune could make Ella a household name.
Certainly inspired be legends like Carrie Underwood and Shania Twain, Ella holds her own well across this brief listen, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone if her name is spoken alongside those luminaries in the near future.
Travels well with: Gretchen Wilson- All Jacked Up; Miranda Lambert- Evolution