SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: ALEXANDRA ALDEN – WHEN IS IT TOO LATE?

ALEXANDRA ALDEN
WHEN IS IT TOO LATE?
INDEPENDENT

Picture this . . . You put high hopes and incredible effort into your second album, decide which track is going to be the single for it, and submit that single to your country’s Eurovision contest. Then, you hit a bump in the road. The song ends up getting disqualified from the contest because it was released too early.

Well, that is the way things started for Maltese singer-songwriter Alexandra Alden and her sophomore effort, When is it too late? The album title actually takes inspiration from Sylvia Plath’s fig metaphor, but it could also be taken as a sort of response to the Eurovision rebuff.

Whatever the case is, it shouldn’t matter, as Alden’s album rests squarely on its own merits. It’s a well-conceived, well-written, and well-performed album of singer-songwriter/pop tones that doesn’t necessarily take the standard formulas pop adheres to these days. Alexandra Alden reminds audiences of the days when singer-songwriters ruled the radio waves of the early ‘70s, and that is definitely a good thing.

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