Pure Attraction

Description

Images is the fourth album by the American singer Kathy Troccoli, released on Reunion Records in 1991. The album was recorded and mixed by Bob Cadway at Cove City Sound Studios in Long Island, New York; and was produced and arranged by Ric Wake.

The comeback/return of the year goes to Kathy Troccoli, who in 1986 left the Christian music biz in a haze of discouragement to search out greener pastures. Five years later, Troccoli returns to Reunion Records older and wiser, and doing what she wanted to do all along – make a commercially viable and musically potent pop project for the masses with this fourth album, ‘Pure Attraction’.

For her fans who have kept a candle burning for the little lady with a big voice, there are only pleasant surprises here, with this mix of heart-tugging ballads and powerhouse dance-pop tunes. Always on the edge of what was hot in the contemporary scene even in the ’80s, Troccoli is right on time, packing this album with one top-40 pop tune after another with enough hooks to catch a 400 lb. mackerel.

The album starts off with «Everything Changes» written by mainstream pop maker Diane Warren, which sounds a bit too much like Taylor Dayne’s «With Every Beat of My Heart». Filled with big sounds, emotion, longings and a barrage of arrangements, Troccoli sounds more mature and sensual, singing from the gut as well as the heart.

As true with most pop projects, ‘Pure Attraction’ is strong on the arrangement side and lighter in the lyric department as is seen with many of the tunes on this project. The theme of the contrite prodigal weaves its way though many of the tunes Troccoli belts out, like «You’re Still Here»: “It’s dark outside/ I’ve been away from home too long/ I see a light/ You’ve left it on while I was gone/ In my mind I kept hearing all your words/ I can’t forget.”

Spiritual content more often than not is implied or inferred, making it certain that ‘Pure Attraction’ will once again find the Christian music aficionado questioning what makes an album – or for that matter a song – Christian. This is a positive pop album much like Amy Grant’s ‘Heart in Motion‘

I know a lot of 15-years-old girls who would embrace these lighthearted, emotional tunes. Listen to the radio any time of any day and listen to what’s hot and what’s not. For an emotionally immature generation that is infatuated with the excitement of making and breaking up – finding itself bored with the prospect of dwelling in any relationship, let alone one with God – Troccoli has struck a home run by providing these love songs of pain and hurt. But the songs lack the heartfelt authenticity needed to make them more than today’s top five hit and tomorrow’s elevator musak. [Kathleen A. Ervin, CCM, November 1991]

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CD tracklist:

01. Everything Changes – 4:22
02. Help Myself To You – 4:13
03. Love Has Found Me Here – 4:38
04. You’ve Got A Way – 3:53
05. You’re Still Here – 4:00
06. Love Was Never Ment To Die – 4:45
07. The Hard Days – 4:03
08. Can’t Get You Out Of My Heart – 4:23
09. Only Love Can Know – 5:13
10. You And I – 3:14

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Reunion Records.