FOREVER YOURS, the fourth studio album by the originally Hamburg-based band Rhonda, surprises with predominantly gentle tones. Interestingly enough, her sensitive soul appears folky and brooding here. Does that have to do with the fact that the pandemic has caused a lot of things to slip and slide? How to rehearse, how to continue when contacts are hardly possible, individual musicians even live in other cities or countries?
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Many gave up and postponed their release. Not so Rhonda, although the band had to manage to produce their delicate, sensitive album across continental borders, as singer Milo Malone has been living in Los Angeles for some time. What has amazed Rhonda since its beginnings in northern Germany is its international quality. This may be due to the excellent musicians, but above all to Malone, a singer and songwriter whose voice, at times powerful, at times complex and lucid, covers everything that the demanding tracks on the new album require.
The wonderful Melinda Carlisle-esque Santa Barbara is heart-warming West Coast, and Golden Days has you sailing a yacht into the sunset. Rhonda’s sixties sound is never so retro that it seems arbitrary, but skilfully and tastefully weaves in influences from the last few decades, so that FOREVER YOURS could create something very contemporary and relevant.
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