“A Cold Wind Blows” receives a four star rating from Stacy’s Music Row Report.

Debra Lyn
A Cold Wind Blows (Evolution)
Rating
****

A Cold Wind Blows (Evolution) is Debra Lyn’s gift to fans who enjoyed A Cold Wind Blows, Debra’s second studio album, following its 2014 release.

The former, over five years in the making, as I wrote after receiving a review copy, “details the different phases of relationships. Debra Lyn achieves this with vocal performances so compelling that listeners have a blueprint, courtesy of one of the more pleasing and clear voices of experience; a singer whose songwriting pen adds an ink-filled flourish consistent with the creative license of imagination.”

A decade later, with the advent of technology that was nonexistent in 2014, Debra has rerecorded the 11 original tracks, all of which she has written or co-written with the album’s producer, Jeff Silverman. Silverman, Debra’s husband, mixed and mastered both albums, A Cold Wind Blows (Evolution) containing a 12th track, “Carried the Torch.”

Like “So Long Since September,” which Debra recut, alongside the remakes, for her latest release, “Carried the Torch” and all of the other selections found here, has been entirely remixed in Dolby Atmos, in order to provide listeners with what Debra calls “a more immersive experience.”

“Carried the Torch,” a tale of vulnerability as well as division between head and heart, chronicles yet an additional relationship phase that dovetails quite nicely with the themes of the other 11 songs as I described them previously.