DAVID KIRTON Time For Change (Right Recordings)

Oct 25 2008 by Paul Cole, Sunday Mercury

DAVID KIRTON

Time For Change (Right Recordings)

ALREADY a triple award-winner in the Caribbean, the new album from Barbadian balladeer Kirton has the crossover appeal to break him big in the mainstream pop charts. Songs such as Miss The Water and Sugar are R&B flavoured – imagine Craig David swaying to a sunshine beat – while Money boasts an old school disco beat, and the title track is UB40 style soca-pop. Things get more interesting, however, on peace anthem Green Camouflage, an irresistibly old-fashioned reggae song that could have been a Trojan track. Listen, too, for radio-friendly Michael Jackson-like ballad Free To Fly, a hit in the making. PC