After over a year, and some may say a life time, Steff Reed
has released his debut album “The Intervention” for full consumption. It may
seem odd to refer to a body of work as something to be consumed but the
emotional journey you will go through with Steff on the ride that is “The
Intervention” will leave you engulfed in passion, love, affection, anger, lust,
grief, and even joy. Yet these are just a few feelings that seep out of the
lyrics and production of the 8 tracks you will encounter.
Taking you on the journey that brought him to the point
where he decided it was time to step from the back into the forefront “The
Introduction” opens the album featuring Jaiden the Cure and Gordon Chambers ,a
long time mentor to Steff in the times that led up to and through “The
Intervention”. Followed by “Sadistic” an ode to a woman you know will be no
good for you, yet you can’t help but want to touch. One touch can lead to something
you never intended, leaving you “Out on the Ledge”, this track embodies the low
of an accumulation of actions. That
place we all must reach at times in order to overcome our pitfalls. Taking a
turn in the album, as he had in life; we come to “Trials of Job” one of, if not
the most revealing song to date. Steff takes you through some personal
situations that left him at a cross roads where he made the choice to either
let them weigh him down or be a rock for him to stand on. The “Eulogy” is the preleud to the metaphoric
“Funeral”, morbid in title it is really a song about burying anything that may
be holding you back so you may then flourish.
Cocoa Sarai brings life in spoken word to title track “The
Intervention”, a spotlight on just how artistic this album is allowing another
person’s words to capture his emotion. To cap the journey you get the very
uplifting gospel type anthem in “Alright” which could lift the lowest spirits
to a hopeful place.
“The Intervention” is a vulnerable piece of art as it is a
piece of Steff’s heart as 8 songs on a soundtrack that was his rise, fall, and redemption.
Sure to touch anyone who listens as we all have been tempted, we have all
fallen, and some of us may need words to help us get back up.
This is for you, Enjoy.
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