Never Leave Your Lover Alone Album Review

The name may not be familiar to some, but his voice will be. Listening to Nick Ferretti, you stop, whatever it is you’re doing and just listen. This is exactly why he manages to capture the attention of nearly everyone on Queen Street, Auckland, where you’ll find him most weekends, rain or sun. Nick is a really humble guy, and for this young father of one, that humbleness reflects in his music and nature.

When I first discovered Nick playing on Queen Street a few months back, my first thoughts were, I really hope he has an EP or demo, because there was something really special about what I heard that day. Lucky, for me, he was selling copies of his first collection of songs, and so here it is. Never Leave Your Lover Alone is a powerful collection of what Nick does best, him and his guitar and beautiful melody of blues. In some ways, it’s really hard to tell you how heartfelt and honest all of his songs are, because telling you just doesn’t do them justice, you have to let you ears take the lead. Nick sings in such a way that if you don’t start to feel something in the first minute, there may be something wrong with you.

One of my absolute favourite tracks has to be track seven, Help Myself To You and Owe My Bones To The Ground These numbers are soulful and sultry, easily pulling at your heartstrings as Nick serenades the listener with such honest humility. There will almost be a tear because that is how beautiful they are. Further down the tracks is a great number – I Need A Secret, and the awesome organ laced, Opportunity which really shows off Nick’s melodic rock style, with perfectly suited backing vocals.

I honestly can say that this has been the most played CD of any artist I have reviewed, my words don’t even begin to touch the sides of how poetically amazing it is, and I know there will be much more awesome things to follow from Nick, so watch this space. For more information , support Nick at www.facebook.com/nick.ferretti.35