Singer Stevie Nicks based her image mainly on Rhiannon, the first hit she scored with Fleetwood Mac in 1975. From then on she became Rhiannon, the sensual white witch, dressed in gothic dresses and songs full of mystical symbolism. She also cultivates this on her seventh solo album with, among other things, a text set to music by Edgar Allan Poe (Annabel Lee). But musically there is nothing but
… earthy and even some flat (soft) rock from which, helped by drummer Mick Fleetwood and guitarist / singer Lindsay Buckingham, the old magic of Fleetwood Mac sporadically rises. Over the years, the voice of Nicks has become more nasal and grisier, which works out well in the bluesy Soldier's Angel, for example. But often she does not know how to fascinate with this and she sounds powerless on this, because of Eurythmics' Dave Stewart-produced the album. (MR)more
