Epiphany is
the highly anticipated follow up to her 2007 release I Am.  

Here’s a track by track review:

Epiphany (I’m Leaving) – The title track grabs
your attention from the start with the piano heavy instrumental accompanied by
her smooth sultry voice as she sings about leaving her relationship.

Notebook – A nice slow love song. Nice mix of the
acoustic guitar along with a drum sample. Here she sings of her crush and her
reluctance to reveal her feelings to him.

What You Do Featuring Ne-Yo – This piano laden
track features the additional vocal styling of songwriter Ne-Yo on the hook.  Her voice is so melodic and effortless on this
one that you can feel the emotion coming through the speakers.

Blame It On Me – Here she sings about a broken
relationship and it’s effects. As the song builds, she maintains the smoothness
throughout.

All I Ever Think About – Here she seems to channel
the greats like Anita Baker as she sings about not being able to get over a
past love, even though she has moved on.

Playing Our Song – She picks up the pace a little
here. This is a nice up-tempo track.

Another One – continuing with the up-tempo portion
of the album. Accompanied by an acoustic guitar she belts out a winner about
moving on and being done with a relationship.

On My Own – Here she owns this track as she
serenades the melody with the heartfelt lyrics.

Fragile – This drum heavy track is just a little
different from the rest but not enough to deter from the album.

Mr. Right – This reminds me of Amy Whinehouse. She
definitely does her thing on this fast track.

Porcelain Doll – One of my favorites as she
sings/speaks about being treated as a grown woman and not a child. It sounds as
if she is speaking more so than singing but it works.

I’m Okay – The final track to wind the album down
and sum it all up. Once again the piano and her voice were meant for each
other. This track actually sums up the album perfectly. She goes from wanting
to break up, to breaking up, to moving on, to being alright with it.

This album is easily one of my favorites. Chrisette seems to
have the ability to effortlessly meld her voice onto the smoothness of each and
every track. It is hard for me to pick just one track as a favorite because
they are all great to me. Her voice lends itself to the greats like Lena Horne,
Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Anita Baker and the list goes on. Though I
feel that her style and vocal ability is overlooked, she will definitely have a
future in this business.

Overall, this album deserves a 4.5 out of 5.