NewswireTODAY - /newswire/ - Milwaukee, WI, United States, 2013/01/04 - Liv Mueller, frontwoman of The Lovelies and The Dark Horse Project releases her first truely solo disc - LivMueller.com.

Liv Sings Love Songs for the Forlorn & Misguided (Self-released)

Although Liv Mueller has been part of Milwaukee's music scene for a long time, she has rarely been predictable. Fronting the Lovelies, she made increasingly muscular power-pop; with the Dark Horse Project, she concentrated on atmosphere; and with her new solo album, she's trying variations on a theme.

"Love Songs" is a spiritual successor to the conceptual likes of Frank Sinatra's "Only the Lonely"; in other words, the songs explore the tension of attraction, usually resolved by disappointment with the object of one's affection, if not entirely with love itself.
Melodic and with steady voice, Mueller approaches her subject from many angles, such as the Jobim-style romanticism of "One More Time" and the dark-roads rock of "Let It Roll." She even takes the Patsy Cline classic "Crazy Arms" to its logical conclusion, letting the coda of the song spin down into echoing madness. The whole album makes it worth following Mueller there.

- Jon M. Gilbertson

Finally Rich

Glory Boyz Entertainment/Interscope

Criminal record, YouTube popularity, a beef (now settled) with Lupe Fiasco, props (and a breakthrough remix) from Kanye West, a multimillion-dollar record deal: So far, Keith Cozart, a.k.a. Chief Keef or Sosa, is hitting the primary markers for a 21st-century rap career. And he's only 17.

That youth is evident on his official debut album,"Finally Rich," on which Keef alternates between proclaiming his street cred and delineating his upwardly mobile status. The beats and production, cold and tinny and dark, match up with the "drill" subgenre rising, like Keef himself, from Chicago's South Side.

The rhymes aren't clever, and the guests (including 50 Cent and Young Jeezy) regularly show up Keef as a contender rather than a champion, but "I Don't Like" and the anxious "Understand Me" have the menacing clarity of a confrontation in an alley.

Chief Keef doesn't need to prove he can keep it real; he needs to prove he can keep it contained within his raw art.

- Jon M. Gilbertson, Special to the Journal Sentinel

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