Songs Of Love
Phil Lam

Loveaholic Vol. 1
C AllStar

On Phil Lam’s sixth release, there is sweetness and tenderness on ballads such as The First Breakfast and on the chart-topping Romance. The Vancouver-born, Hong Kong-based crooner is equally persuasive in English on Missing You and All I Have Is You and in Mandarin on the upbeat Do You Know.
Definition Not Found gives a lexicographical spin on the theme of loss: “Can’t find the definition for love, you’ve been cruel of late/Can’t find the definition for love, you think I’m nothing.” Stop Breeding takes a dim view of our times: “This era forces us into extinction/As we kiss with so much dread.”
On their eighth release, C AllStar offer a varied look at love as well.
Professionally Heartbroken 30 Years is the ultimate sad sack love song: “Use yesterday to divine the future, still won’t be loved next year/Wanted by no one, cared for by no one, loved by no one.”
A different kettle of fish is the cheeky Bromance: “Waiting for orders in a crisis, spurring the horse to full speed, battling with bro through the night/The way men love, only men understand, sweetness comes from silence.”
It definitely casts wuxia films in a different light.
(ST)