Album Review: Archie Roach - Let Love Rule

There's a heaviness to Archie Roach's songwriting.

A certain heavy weight of beauty. Let Love Rule, while thematically driven by the sustaining power and expression of genuine love, is something of a triumph for the veteran songwriter, in no small part, because of that weight. While in a lesser artist's hands songs as sweetly optimistic as those compiled on Let Love Rule could risk over-earnestness, Roach's work is inescapably genuine. With arrangements that are simple enough to be effective and distinctive enough to lend definition, his rock-solid songwriting is beautiful, uplifting, eloquent and sincere. Thoroughly recommended.