Track Listing

1. Happy
2. I Got You
3. Can't Breathe
4. Brave
5. Outta My Head
6. My Hands
7. Love Letter
8. Broken
9. Naked
10. Stop Crying Your Heart Out
11. Don't Let Me Down
12. Alive
13. Lost Then Found (featuring One Republic)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12 in Music
• Released on: 2009-11-16
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
Echo is the follow up to her six million plus seller, four times Brit–nominated and three times Grammy-nominated debut album Spirit. Leona’s debut album Spirit entered the UK album chart at number one and became Britain’s fastest-selling debut of all time selling over 1 million copies in the UK in its first 5 weeks. Echo sees Leona working with Ne-Yo, John Shanks, Max Martin and Ryan Tedder, as well as with new collaborators Xenomania and Julian Bennetta.

Customer Reviews

Pure Class - Track 10 Is A Masterpiece!!!!
Having been fortunate enough to have an advance, I've been playing this CD in my taxi for about 2 days constantly and people are asking me one question and one question only.....who is singing this song?..........I know it from somewhere...

Just like she did with the cover of Run last year, Leona has covered another rockband song, 'Stop Crying Your Out' by Oasis and it is simply beautiful. The CD is worth buying just for that record alone.

The rest of the album is a usual mixture of up-tempo numbers that fall easily into Leona's range and the typical "only Leona and Mariah can do these' songs with beautful fluttering notes and huge endings.

Personally, I think the weakest song is her first release, Happy.

I would have loved to see the Oasis cover version released first, but maybe after she did that with Run, its not best to be known as a singer who just does other peoples hits.

Track 13 is a duet and is nice.

Much better than Spirit, but then when the artist gets an input into the lyrics you can tell that the songs are from the heart and therefore sound much better.

Destined to be a classic!
I've been a fan of Leona from her XF days and to see her progress into the accomplished star she is today has been unbelievable!

The show itself highlighted her versatility; she's not JUST about power ballads - and this new album highlights the fact even more!

I've heard all of the 'leaks' that have got onto the 'net and the fact that not all of them have made it astonished me - I loved them all. But after hearing the preview of the album, I can see why!

This album will kill off once and for all this nagging tag she seems to carry about since winning the XF that she's 'just a talent show winner'...This girl is a bona fide world class performer of the highest order! What difference does it make which route you take to end up in the public eye? The fact that once you're there, you're either good, bad or indifferent and will soon be found out!

Leona is none of these...she is absolutely the BEST female vocalist to come out of this country for many many years and will be a superstar for many more to come!

I've had this on pre-order for ages as I just knew it would be fantastic. Now after hearing this, I just can't wait for it to drop through my letter box on release day - it'll be played on 'repeat' for days on end, of that I'm sure!

Buy it now.....!

A Brutally Mismanaged Talent
First things first : THE LOOK.
What has the naturally pretty Ms Lewis allowed
those who own and mind her do to her lovely face?

Nothing wrong with drag at all but this is bad drag.
Her transformation into a Stepford-vamp-come-femme-fatale
is a devastating misjudgement and mismanagement of
her simple unaffected nature and beauty. Tragic in fact.

Rant over. The music ?

Well, Ms Lewis has a very fine voice. This is incontestable.
The all purpose power-ballads that she does so well are present
and correct in all their finery and there are a lot of them.
That she is credited with co-writing a good half of the album
(with many little helpers) is commendable - as far as it goes.

After a while the relentless formula begins to wear thin.
A breathy, almost hymn-like start; slow but predictable dynamic
build; stratospherically (but somehow disconnected and disembodied)
top notes; big neo-gospel chorus; build some more and fade.
Once or twice is all well and good; six or seven times and I'm
really beginning to lose interest.
'Happy', 'I Got You', 'Can't Breathe' (I'm hardly suprised!);
'Brave'; 'My Hands'; 'Broken'; 'Stop Crying Your Heart Out';
'Don't Let Me Down'; 'Alive' are all cast in the same mould.

The relentless bid for our emotional involvement quickly becomes
exhausting. A little of this kind of thing goes a very long way.
Ultimately I was left feeling quite empty; almost chilled in fact.

This should not be so. Ms Lewis has a wonderful gift which is being
squeezed into too tight a corner and from which she may well not
emerge with an enduring career and an undamaged voice.
Singing this whole album live on tour would take a terrible
toll on her young vocal chords. The strain is already audible.

The only relief in tempo comes from upbeat electro song
'Outta My Head' (an inelegant and truly horrible composition)
and the rather lovely (because somewhat different) 'Love Letter'.

Final track (with near-hysterical vocal performances from
One Republic) delivers a catastrophically crass ending.

I wish her well. I really do. However, this talented young
artist is being catapaulted into a brutal business with scant
regard for her long term emotional and physical well-being.
A voice as good as this needs time to grow.
This is too much too soon in so many ways.

The whole project leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.