Music review: Michael Bolton – ëƵSpark of LightëƵ
The latest release from Michael Bolton provides a pleasurable dose of positivity that seeks to highlight the abundant joy in lifeëƵs daily moments.
ëƵSpark of LightëƵ proves Bolton still has the golden voice that earlier melted countless hearts on classics like ëƵThatëƵs What Love Is All About,ëƵ ëƵHow Am I Supposed To Live Without YouëƵ and ëƵHow Can We Be Lovers.ëƵ
Each time I hear a track from the 70-year-old singer, I am fondly reminded how my wife so badly wanted to become a backup singer after seeing the video for ëƵSteel BarsëƵ back in 1991. While she never made it professionally, she performs some pretty impressive choreography whenever the song is played.
ëƵYou walk in and the room gets brighter/Somehow the weight of the world gets lighter,ëƵ croons Bolton on the opener and title track that speaks to the special people in our life who make us see things in a different light.
ëƵRunning Out of WaysëƵ is simultaneously heartbreaking and hopeful in dealing with the struggles of trying to erase the memories of a past love through a new romance and the hope that a stronger love will blossom once again as Bolton declares, ëƵIëƵve been seeing someone new/Hoping to fall and trying to lose my breath again/SheëƵs got it all, but it wonëƵt do/I canëƵt seem to erase the thought of you.ëƵ
ëƵEyes on YouëƵ is sure to melt a few hearts and produce several happy tears as Bolton describes that defining moment when a life-changing love is discovered. Seeing is believing as Bolton tenderly confesses, ëƵYou woke me up/Showed me love/All the reasons that I believe in us/I didnëƵt know beautiful until now.ëƵ
ëƵBeautiful WorldëƵ gets an added boost of inspiration with Justin Jesso joining Bolton on the number that reminds us that no weight is ever too heavy and no mountain too high to distract us from finding our spark of light in the darkness.
ëƵOut of the AshesëƵ closes the album with a message of hope that encourages the creation of a new burning passion for a better life as Bolton proclaims, ëƵItëƵs all about living up/All about not giving up.ëƵ
ëƵSpark of LightëƵ is certainly all about living up and possessing the strength to never give up.

