As my Twitter feed suggests, I’m going through kind of a big boy band phase. I haven't had it this bad since high school. In a fit of late night Googling, I came across the late 1990s, Irish boy band Westlife (just like my Take That fixation, I’m not sure how I missed this the first time around). It took a while to release his debut album (Westlife called it quits in 2012), but Markus Feehily’s 2015 release ‘Fire’ really demonstrates his rapidly developing strength as a solo artist.
The album has been out for just under a year, and had been chugging along steadily. According to various sources, ‘Fire’ reached #2 on the Irish charts, and cracked the top 30 on the UK charts. It really is the little album that could. 'Love is a Drug' and ‘Butterfly’ are the two singles (and are the definite standouts) which have been released from the album, which can best be described as a fusion of R&B and pop. Feehily makes tremendous use of his incredibly strong vocal range, which he put on display during the Westlife years. The bands cover of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart’ is a personal favorite of this writer.
Wish I would have known when enough was enough/ Need something for the pain but the killer is us/And it keeps on pulling me when I wanna get up/You keep kicking me while you’re holding me down
The strength, and the power evident in the tracks of Markus Feehily’s debut album ‘Fire’ shows just how the former boy-bander has grown as an artist in the years since Westlife broke up. The power of the album definitely pulled me in as a fan, and I’m very excited to see what’s next for the growing musician.
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