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Duffy - Rockferry

May 14th, 2008

by Bambi Weavil

Duffy Rockberry album cover

Duffy

Rockferry

Official Site: http://www.iamduffy.com/

Official MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/duffymyspace

Rockferry, is the most highly anticipated album of the year by Duffy from northern coastal Wales, and the wait was worth it. Duffy is exploding into the American musical scene with “Mercy” being featured as her hot radio single, as well as on ER and Smallville. Riding the wave of recent television appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Live with Regis and Kelly, I’m going to go out on the limb and say she is going to be as successful as the hot Leona Lewis.

The greatest quality about Duffy’s voice is her ability to transcend the pop genre being a 60s-styling soul singer throwback well beyond her years, as well as so incredibly contemporary. Duffy is a storyteller of relationships, and a realistic one, there is never a point on this album that I feel she is not in touch with contemporary music.

Her voice soars and weaves with the strings in “Rockferry,” and the heavy reflective mood, with lyrics such as “I’ll give it all my strength and my mind.“ With “Warwick Avenue,” like a casual stroll down the Boardwalk, focuses on the decision to leave a relationship.

Duffy does such a memorable, dream-like performance of “Serious,” about whether or not a relationship is as serious as it could be, that once you hear it is always stays with you as a backdrop for your day. “Stepping Stone” is her empowering song about not expressing her feelings to a person she fell in love with, and shows you just how good her voice is. “Syrup & Honey” shows a more endearing love song side of Duffy on a beautiful, bluesy musical track.

“Hanging On Too Long” focuses back on spending more time wasting on a relationship that won’t work, and her hit pop, retro dance single, “Mercy” is about wanting to be released from a relationship and shows a more direct Duffy than shown on the album up to this point.

“Delayed Devotion” is another empowering song by Duffy that is one of the most upbeat retro pop-friendly tracks, no longer taking a bad relationship as something acceptable. Duffy gives us some forceful lyrics in “Delayed Devotion”: “I’m no longer under your spell / Hear it in a song / You can go to Hell.”

“Scared” is such a genius song in it’s own right, rarely do you find a song that says what every long-term relationship breakup deals with after the ending and whether or not you can move on, and “Scared” captures it the best lyrically. “Distant Dreamer” shows her vocal power and closes the album and provides some of the best lyrics on Rockferry: “I’m thinking about, / all the things, / I’d like to do in my life.”

Duffy has music that can stand without remixes but even with potential future remixes such as “Mercy” with rap artist, The Game, is going to keep breathing more life into a already incredible album. Duffy creates beautiful, relatable music and she’s going to be on the music scene for a long, long time.