You know the kind of album that’s so good you listen to back to back without skipping a single song, the kind that only comes once or twice a year to remind you that such damn good music and lyrics aren’t long lost nowadays. Well folks, I’m really excited to bring you one today, courtesy of the fabulous Vanessa Carlton.

VanessaCarlton_HeroesAndThieves_CoverShe’s an American pop singer, songwriter, and pianist best known for the single “A Thousand Miles” from her debut album, Be Not Nobody (2002). Since then, she’s been on and off with albums that achieved mild commercial success. Well, that’s until October 2007, when she released her third studio album, titled Heroes and Thieves. This is the album I’m bringing you today, and it’s the album I think you will simply fall in love with!

Heroes and Thieves sees Vanessa departing from the Goth-influenced darker stuff she was once loved for in her previous albums. Instead, she has now embraced a more romance-inspired, piano-driven mainstream classic pop that is simply brilliant. A lot of improvements are very apparent in this album. The lyrics are very connective and well-related to people of her generation, and she focuses mainly on just love songs instead of overrated “hater songs” we get so many these days.

My favorite song on the album is the second one, Hands On Me. A beautiful song with a catchy arrangement and heart-warming lyrics.

Another great song (actually it’s Vanessa’s favorite from the album) is called Home. A decent song that really captures the elusive meaning of really being “home”.

In the album’s title song, Heroes and Thieves, Vanessa says it’s a song about assessing, to put it in a dramatic way, the Heroes and Thieves in your life. It is about her personal evolution, and her deciding how she wants to lead her life and the people with whom she wants to share it.

A lot of more fabulous songs in this albums are just a click away, so go ahead and enjoy it. I highly recommend purchasing this album to show Vanessa how much you appreciate her efforts of putting together not just a collection of songs, but a body of work!

Download

  1. Vanessa Carlton - Nolita Fairytale.mp3
  2. Vanessa Carlton - Hands On Me.mp3
  3. Vanessa Carlton - Spring Street.mp3
  4. Vanessa Carlton - My Best.mp3
  5. Vanessa Carlton - Come Undone.mp3
  6. Vanessa Carlton - The One (With Stevie Nicks).mp3
  7. Vanessa Carlton - Heroes & Thieves.mp3
  8. Vanessa Carlton - This Time.mp3
  9. Vanessa Carlton - Fools Like Me.mp3
  10. Vanessa Carlton - Home.mp3