Lessons to Be Learned

Artist	Gabriella Cilmi
Format	CD
Genre	Rock
Label Name	Universal
Producer	Brian Higgins
Release Date	2008 04 08
Song List	1: Save the Lies (3:38) 2: Sweet About Me (3:23) 3: Sanctuary (3:28) 4: Einstein (3:39) 5: Got No Place to Go (3:23) 6: Don't Want to Go to Bed Now (3:09) 7: Messy (3:54) 8: Awkward Game (3:28) 9: Safer (3:24) 10: Cigarettes and Lies (2:51) 11: Terrifying (2:37) 12: Sit in the Blues (3:23) 13: Echo Beach [UK Bonus Track] (5:55) 14: [CD-Rom Track]
Style.Categories	Teen Pop, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Pop/Rock, Pop

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UK based Australian teenager Gabriella Cilmi released her debut album at the end of March 2008 to critical acclaim but not much public notice. However, as is often the case, word of mouth spread slowly and the album built into a top 10 hit with more and more people discovering it. Having co-written all of the tracks with the production team of Xenomania, the team behind Girls Aloud and The Sugababes, whom she had just finished touring with, Gabriella Cilmi delivered a confident album with styles varying from Eurovision pop disco as on the tracks Messy, Don't Wanna Go To Bed Now and Save The Lies to cool 1950s swing jazz on Awkward Lies the first single to be taken from the album, Sweet About Me to 1960s girl groups on Got No Place To Go and a few ballads Einstein, Safer and Sit In The Blues. The album closed with the only cover version, a faithful reproduction of Martha & The Muffins' Echo Beach which was on the UK version only. A good debut album, but it had all been heard before, many times in a crowded market, her voice sounding like a cross between Anastacia and Joss Stone particularly on the opening track Save The Lies which also had a Kylie Minogue style backing track. In particular the recent albums by Duffy and Adele were also brought to mind, Cilmi sounding so much like Duffy on the song Sanctuary so therefore also evoking memories of Dusty Springfield, no bad thing, but Duffy did it a couple of months before. ~ Sharon Mawer, All Music Guide