CB7: LOVE by Coke Belda

Love is this and love is that, and that should be about it as far definitions of the grandest, often elusive emotion are concerned. But, of course, it isn’t, being much more than that, no matter how you look at it.

Love is more than an easy-to-define feeling. Just ask Coke Belda, who, on the occasion of his seventh collection of peerless pop, has taken on the task of defining love in a dozen, shall we say lovely, musical missives. He has, as you might imagine, having followed, and loved, Coke’s previous six collections, hit the nail on the head.

But notice the head of love surrounding you. There is plenty of room for varying definitions, for debate, for singing the songs of all kinds of love. Within this album, it is asserted, with Coke’s usual finesse, that love is pain, blind, here, there and everywhere. Love is sad and heavy.

Love is, also, semantics, which no doubt opens a bee’s nest of sweet honey and stingers. Love is just about everything imaginable, in point of fact—this, that, and the other things that cry out for our attention as we embrace this most pure and alive emotion.

On this album all about love, that most worthy of emotions, Coke has composed just over a half hours’ worth of extremely catchy, melody-rich songs that will at least start the ball rolling toward a better understanding of, well, you know.

- Alan Haber, pure popster always

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