The Corrs: Home

I love this family band. Three sisters and a brother form and Irish pop/rock band. How can that go wrong I say?

Well, their album In Blue showed how it could go wrong: It was too overly electronic. When you have four amazingly talented musicians/singers, you don't do what U2 did (and some fans feel they should have done), which is to go so overly produced, A la Pop.

This album feels more them. Very Irish. As well it should, though, since their goal of this album was to take some modern and some classic Celtic tunes and put their beautiful spin on them. While this can make it feel folky, it doesn't make it any less great.

And, let's take a moment to appreciate this band, because, really, we all should. We've got four siblings, all musically gifted, and all very attractive, even the brother. You have to admit, those Irish genes are really working overtime in this family.

Home moves at a much slower pace than a lot of what I've been listening to lately, which made it hard for me to get through it at first, but between the strong Celtic feeling and the orchestral feeling created by the band, I was drawn in.

In the end: We're not going to see a lot of mainstream radio play on this album, which is always sad, but America doesn't like too much folk-ish music on it's radios, especially ethnic folk. But if you can appreciate celtic music, or even just the sound of a violin and a drum working together, you can enjoy this album.