Dark and with trip hop beats and Plattenknistern ringing Gabriella Cilmi their third album "The Sting". This album represents a kind of new start for the singer, because it is the first work that it published without their previous management and also with a new label. "The Sting" is varied succeeded because Gabriella Cilmi combines the different styles on the album. Besides interesting R'n'B and Soul elements that young Australian also comes with quite approach the pop elements to their fans. But always with the nostalgic penchant for emotional seriousness and reflection. "The Sting" no longer comes up with more cheerful sounds รก la "Sweet About Me" on. Gabriella Cilmi has matured and can look back on their previous experience, both professionally and in private life back. And these were not entirely positive, so that "The Sting" a happy album could have been. But the quality of the songs and the associated captivating fascination of the album are the depth and partly wistful processed past the singer. Especially songs like "Sweeter In History", "Do not Look Back", "Not Sorry" or "Left With Someone Else" embody this emotional focus of the album. The combination of the sounds and the raspy voice of Gabriella Cilmi creates an exciting atmosphere, like a veil over "The Sting" considering. One feels one hand, including safe and secure and can also with a certain distance, a distance from life experience, look to landmark events of the past. And it is precisely this view has taken on "The Sting" in autobiographical way to now faithful entitled "Do not Look Back" to look only forward, towards its own future, Gabriella Cilmi. And so we must be happy about the accomplished reflecting the Australian, because without the musical and textual processing of their own experiences, this wonderful album might otherwise not have arisen.
