She is the the girl who toppled Radiohead off the U.K. Albums chart to take the crown at the highest place with her debut album "This Is the Life." She is the singer who shook the Scottish and the rest of European music scenes with her booming voice through singles like "Poison Prince" and "Mr. Rock and Roll." She is Amy Macdonald, a talented Scottish rock/folk musician in her early 20s who started it all with a copy of Travis' CD. Today's pick is her latest tune "Your Time Will Come," the fifth single from her sophomore effort "A Curious Thing." The single was released on December 17, 2010.It's hard for MacDonald to remember the high point of the two-year period following the release of her 2007 debut "This Is The Life." Being the ever-restless songwriter she's been from her early teens, she's alchemised those experiences into the sound of her second album, "A Curious Thing." Big, bold and dramatic. Intimate, tender and touching. It's MacDonald, full-voiced and rebooted and reenergized. The album's title, she explains, is taken from new song "I Got No Roots," explains, "this life I lead, it's a curious thing but I can't deny the happiness it brings." It's a reflection on the strange turns her life has taken in the four years since she signed a record deal.
MacDonald penned this defiant, encouraging tune, "Your Time Will Come," already a live favorite, as both a big-up to her footballer boyfriend Steve Lovell and as a song that anyone can relate to. She said: "I think there comes a point in everyone's life when they don't know what to do next - they're scared about the future. 'Your Time Will Come' is a positive song that explains that everything will turn out well in the end."
The most wonderful things happen when you least expect it. This is the absolutely the most enjoyable rock or popular music I have experienced in a very long time. MacDonald has softly spoken but with a booming singing voice that snaps you to attention. Despite her Scottish origins, her singing voice is described as partly Irish. Her voice somehow sounds much older than a 23-year-old, that proverbial old head on young shoulders, who writes songs with the grace, wisdom, and proficiency of one with a score more on the clock, as her subject matter is very mature, and themes are universal, but her perspective is decidedly youthful.
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