Love Is Revealed In The Long Run
Fish Leong
Sometimes, all we want is comfort food. Nothing fancy or new, just something familiar and reassuring.
This is what Malaysian singer Fish Leong offers with the title track on her 12th studio album.
The ballad is about staying true through trials and tribulations and is tailor-made for her richly soothing voice: “I’m not a rumour, I can’t guess you/This crazy game, who needs to approve it/ Others may talk, I don’t care/Whether I love you or not, all will be revealed in the long run.”
With the song She, Leong ventures beyond love to sing about learning to let go of past hurts: “In the midst of wandering, her hands are empty/But her heart is full.”
Then she strays further and flirts with, gasp, dance pop on Bonjour! and Telepathy. It does not help that the transition from She to Bonjour! is jarring and neither fast-paced track feels particularly necessary.
All is right with the world again with the breezy album ender Around The Four Seasons Of Love, as Leong proclaims joyfully: “Spring summer fall winter/Tour the four seasons with your love, super exciting.”
A couple of adventurous tracks are all the excitement one needs from a Fish Leong album.
(ST)