Reviews (page 2 of 9)
Inspiration for James Blunt and Ed Sheeran? Yeah figures. Generic sad background music with synthesized instruments
About the same as yesterday, just newer. Sail Away was pretty good though
nicht schlecht, We're Not Right banger, Gemini sagt er hat den Weg für Ed Sheeran etc. musikalisch geebnet, ich sehe, {reicht aber auch nicht ganz ganz für vier Sterne} actually doch, We're Not Right, den ich seitdem im Auto hörte, ist so ein Banger, dass es für vier Sterne reicht
Not the most upbeat album I've heard but pretty nice overall. Inoffensive, often soothing and a lovely voice.
This started out promising and swiftly reneged on that promise.
When I was 21, life circumstances reconnected me with a girl (we felt like kids at 21) I had met two years prior. At that time, we lived in different parts of the country. A rekindled connection very quickly morphed in to something all encompasing. This long distance courtship included long phone calls and trading of mix tapes and art through the mail. CD's were long established at that time, but mixed CD's lack finesse and care in curation. It felt like an incomplete expression. Too easy. Insert Cusack vibes here. We traded many tapes back and forth through the mail for about half a year. One of her tapes included "Please Forgive Me". I honestly can't recall what my inclusions looked like, or most of hers for that matter, but this one has stayed with me. I am forever grateful to this song for it's ability to bring me back to 21 with an astoundingly clear recollection of the mental and physical space existed in at that time. That love was deep,red hot, and consumed us both. I moved across the country to make that connection happen and David Gray was the soundtrack to that life transition. We have long since moved on, but the memory lingers. Not of the girl per se (I wish her happiness and health), but the whole experience. It felt rare and special and I sometimes wonder how many others get to have that in thier lifetime. Everyone I hope, but I suspect not. Anyways, 5 stars for a truly life altering moment. Otherwise, I would probably peg this album as a 3. Haha.
I'm sort of surprised this came out in '98; I would have guessed much later. Certainly Babylon was a song you couldn't avoid for a while. It's inoffensive enough, I guess?
Bom álbum, boa descoberta
No, you don't need to listen to this before you die. Middle age white dad music. As a (almost) middle aged white (to be) dad I found this a smooth listen. Does what it says on the tin.
kind of forgettable, not really for me
Disliking everything about the first song (Please Forgive Me) except the lyrics. It feels like this might have just been a simple tune for guitar or piano and someone decided to schmaltz it up with soulless drum machine and synth. It sounds horrible. Babylon is supposed to be the big hit and it also sounds like someone forced a crappy old Casio synth keyboard on it. Not enjoying it. Lyrically interesting, musically crap. The third song, My Oh My, starts off with just a guy with a guitar, which sounds good but then continues to add elements. Musically, this one is better, but the lyrics aren't as good as the first two by a fair bit. Yeah, the synth quality on this is horrible. Nightblindness has a nice groove and sound until that crappy synth sound breaks in. This Year's Love is a step above everything else on this album musically and really grabs my attention. Thank goodness they left out the low end synth. This and Sail Away, which is growing on me take this up to teetering between 2 and 3/5 stars. Ah, guitar loops, I didn't realize it before but this is just guitar loops, not a guitar performance! So bad.
This journey has taught me I'm not the fan of Folk that I thought I was(damn you, "Juno", your soundtrack was just too good). It's just so boring, and I was thankful when it ended. It sounds like a soundtrack for one of those 2000s Rom Com movies. Favorite Track: "This Year's Love".
gayvid gay
6.5 / 10
Does this sound very turn-of-the-millennium? Well, yeah, but it's not a crime for an album to sound like the year it came out and there are enough Extremely Seventies albums on this list with very high ratings to prove that. Maybe it's my incurable millennial cringe but I still think there are some lovely songs here.
Some of the most generic music ever made. If the came out today I'd wonder which model spewed it out
Fine
A classic, so lovely. This goes to show how creativity can be fueled by next to no budget.
While some of the songs are a little underdeveloped, perhaps, I still love this album as a whole.
Babylon was the big radio hit from this album. It's an innocuous bit of a pop song. Not much to really get the blood flowing and it wasn't anything that moved me to want to seek out the rest of the album. Let's see if I missed out. Six songs in and my instincts were right. There is no there there on this record. He's got a voice kinda like Michael McDonald, okay in small doses as a background singer that becomes mumbly-assed nails on a chalkboard when it's out front for any length of time. I ain't sitting through that nine minute final track, bye bye.
Oh man. I know Coldpay (rightly) get stick for being bland, but David Gray was on another level. HIS NAME IS DAVID GRAY! Anyway, this was as annoying as it was massive at the time. You couldn't go anywhere with seeing Gray's head lolling about, presumably because his spine had been partially severed around the neck region, while he mewled about Babylon. Jesus, if you love it so much just go there. He's another fella i somehow ended up seeing at Glastonbury and it was as dull as you could imagine. Also, when you hear him sing and you don't know what he looks like...you imagine he looks like a sheep, right? You know the shape a sheep's mouth makes when it goes baaaa? That's how you imagine this giu sings, right? It's not good. It's anti-music in a different way from Throbbing Gristle. In a way that it just...is nothing. It's just nothing. It's a weird moment which birthed the bland boy with guitar music that is so successful today. It pushes the art form back many many decades.
the 3rd review is "Background music for a sad person watching rain fall down a window. 1/5" and it's completely correct except that 1/5 bit.
Fucking garbage
Um disco de inspiração folk acústico, com adição de elementos eletrônicos que contribuem para o lirismo das canções.
Blah, a Dylan, Guthrie, Seger etc wanna be; the mourning, sad sack droning did work for me.
Sound engineering is awesome. Album is not bad but neither great.
⭐⭐+ Lyssnade på det här albumet när det hade en liten revival på 00-talet, tycker soundet känns ganska "modernt" för att vara släppt 1998. Nu så här efter några decennier så känns albumet inte så spännande och ganska platt. Tycker Please forgive me och Sail away är bra men förutom de spåren så är det inte så spännande, det får bli en stark 2a. Bäst är Please forgive me och Sail away.
I dont like ert
not for me
There isn’t a ba bad song on this album and yet it feels David Gray gets a hard time. This epitomising the type of artist that has an unexpected hit album and gradually returns to their natural level of sales (solid but not spectacular). For some reason this is often seen as a failure, which it’s not. Babylon is a great track and is matched by the other tracks. His version of ‘Say hello, wave goodbye’ surpasses the original for me.
My dad bought this album (I think on cassette) when it came out, and he played it all the time. It’s a brilliant album. It’s not perfect - there are a handful of tracks in the middle that are relatively weak - but it gets pretty close to it. “This Years’s Love” is, by my money, one of the most beautiful songs ever written, and Gray’s version of “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye” is barely recognisable as that by Soft Cell, but is one of the best covers of a song I’ve still ever heard.
The production on this album is SO late 90s/early 2000s but my word David Gray has a beautiful voice. Sometimes the album reminds me of Gomez, just if they were using a shitty drum machine instead of having Olly Peacock sort out proper percussion (Silver Lining is particularly guilty of this). It is impossible to explain to people who weren't in the UK, and at least in their teens at the time this came out, just how ubiquitous the five singles from this album were. Particularly Babylon, which as of January 2026, has gone two times platinum (600,000 sales). It still gets played. I suspect it always will. All of which can really count against it in a whole "familiarity breeds contempt" kinda way. I never heard the album at the time, so I tried to focus my listening on the album tracks. Which I did enjoy for the most part. I carried on frequently not liking the choices made in instrumentation but enjoying his voice. All of which results in a fairly middle of the road score. I suddenly really want to watch some Grey's Anatomy... 3/5
7.6/10 good but probably wont listen to it again
So boring.
i recognize t1, but i can't say im excited to listen to 50 min of this. t2 is familiar as well. I can't say I hate this, but it's not my vibe. It also isn't hitting my ear as something new, it's nostalgic and because of that, my brain writes it off, which is a me a problem. I feel like im listening to a scrubs episode.
Just dull and as middle of the road as it comes.
Actually pretty good I liked about half of the songs, very catchy
Set your head to wobbling, nod along to a couple of okay singles…then drift off as it all gets a bit dull before an unnecessarily long cover of my favourite Soft Cell tune that drags on.
I absolutely love this album. Perhaps my favorite of the 90s.
His voice is a bit grating after a while. Couple of decent tunes on this, but it’s defo not one of the greatest albums ever.
I'm bias as I've seen him live and he puts on a great show. It's also sold 7 million copies so it hit a chord with people massively in Ireland and the UK. 4/5.
Silver Lining
The male Amy Winehouse overemotes through these numbers, substituting exaggerated vocal mannerisms for anything with actual human feeling.
Nice vocals, quiet
Light rock with a country twang
I’m just now hearing this is the best-selling album of all time in Ireland. OF ALL TIME! Someone should probably check on them. This album reminds me of when I would be eating breakfast in front of the TV before school, flipping between the channels that just play music, and eventually when you run out of options you end up on like the Adult Contemporary channel and it sounds like this. Or maybe it's more like phone hold music, or idk AI music. Bad.
It’s not an album that immediately grabs your attention, but the melodies and hooks are so soothing that I found myself much more drawn to the album on a second or third listen. My highlights are “We’re Not Right”, “This Year’s Love”, and “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye”
Each individual song isn't bad but somehow when compiled into an album, it's less than the sum of the parts. Overly long and a tad boring, the best parts of the album come at the end though
The musical manifestation of a yawn. A bunch of middle class kids in their 20’s owe their life to this record in as much as their dad put it on to get their mum in the mood to get pumped on a ski trip to Morzine back in the day. Nothing against DG, he has had a successful career and seems like a nice fella but this is never an album that anyone has to hear before they die. 2
It's a bit bland to be honest. Never liked it back when it came out and nothing has changed.
I really enjoyed this, kind of a Noah Kahan(sp?). Nice calm songs, enjoyable melodies, vocals were nice
Edit: Bumping this up to 4 stars because "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" has been a staple for me since I listened to this album. Kind of torn on what to rate this. I absolutely loved “Please Forgive Me,” “Babylon,” and “Say Hello Wave Goodbye,” but the rest was very forgettable. Those three songs made me understand why this album made the list but the rest had me questioning it. This is a 3.5 and might end up being a 4 in the end because of how much I adore those songs, especially “Say Hello Wave Goodbye,” but I’m rounding down because of the relative weakness of the rest of the album.
what is ts
#421/1001. Never heard about this artist, or any of the songs. Apparently huge in the U.K and even huger in Ireland. Oh well, I guess this must be an important album for some. For me it is one of those singer-songwriter albums, which brings nothing new to the genre, and it is a bit hit and miss which ones you get attached to at certain point of your life.
If Coldplay sucked even more.
Some great songs and they’ve certainly been played a bunch. But the production (guitar over drum machine + one added instrument per song (is that a theramin i here?)) gets repetitive. This is fine, but didn’t hold my attention during the early tracks — it ends on several very strong tracks. As an album it’s a 3.
Surprisingly knew almost every song
I knew I knew the song Babylon, but I was confusing it in my head with a song that I hate (Superman by Five For Fighting). I was pleasantly surprised when it was not that song. I didn't know that I knew another song on this album, This Year's Love, because it is in the movie The Girl Next Door. His voice reminds me of James Blunt, who although I've seen in concert (opener for Ed Sheeran), I very much dislike. It was fine, but kind of boring.
Sad boi British vibes in the dying era of Brit pop tugs at the heart strings.
*Fine singer songwriting....nice voice and music but nothing really stands out
I still get “Babylon” stuck in my head every now and then despite not knowing who the artist was. There’s one or two other good songs here, but it’s largely unremarkable. 3 stars for now until I give it more listens
Meh
Dylan impression but only the phoned-in 80s Dylan albums. An earnest cover of a Soft Cell song Soft Cell doesn’t even remember. Wasn’t he a Dave Matthews protégé? So many odd decisions at play without a lot of payoff.
The opening track strikes a nice minor-chord vibe, and he’s playing around with some interesting electronic beats and other sounds. But the big hit “Babylon" would slot nicely into a mixtape for yuppie-favored coffee shops alongside similar adult-contemporary fare like K.D. Lang and Sting. The rest is pleasant enough but anodyne, and I grew bored.
It's nice and feels so very 1990s
Dull. Why is this on the list? And why did he cover an obscure Soft Cell song as the last track? Still didn't sway me positively.
Just ok, not one of 1001.
This opens with a track called Please Forgive Me in some kind of attempt to placate what he's about to put the listener through... for 50 mins! He should have named every track as some form of apology, cos fuck me this was drab! Beige music is the worst kind and this is several coats thick of it. In closing track Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, he manages to turn the great 5 minute Soft Cell song into 9 minutes of drab plodding! He probably played it exactly the same, just at his speed which naturally added the extra 4 minutes So no Dave... I won't be waving goodbye... just fuck off! I almost want to rip my ears off... just to feel something!
Really liked David’s voice.
That was more enjoyable than I thought it would be. I would give it 3.5, but I'll round down.
wonderful
I still like the song Sail Away, but the album as a whole doesn’t hold up for me.
Good
I can't explain but this would be a good album if it was "Gray White" by David Ladder. Huge for lovers of weird drums and Bob Dylan impersonators though.
I need to stop skimming the reviews before I get to an album, because they have a bad habit of shaping my listening. This guy sounds like a whiny Bob Dylan. That is a bad indicator for the rest of the album. The drums are cool on track 1... there's like a weird DNB thing going on... but my earlier skim on the toilet revealed to me that that will not be the rest of my experience. At least this song is cool! The folky weird electronic instrumentals are cool but man this music is just kind of lame. Not bad, but it’s like early 200’s alt rock radio. Silver Lining is ok. My Oh My as well The drum break on White Ladder is interesting… not big on the vocals. Probably the coolest one so far, but I wish more synth stuff was going on. Oh there it is, the hook is cool. This Year’s Love boooo boring It’s all kind of bland. Lyrics are bleh and the vocals are whiny. Sounds like Christian music sometimes. 2 stars because the instrumentals are cool sometimes Favorite: White Ladder Least: This Year’s Love Shoutout: Silver Lining
Es bastante genérico, no voy a mentir, pero me tuvo entretenido
Back when the song Babylon was on the radio every two seconds, I’d change the channel every time it came on. I hated that song. I used to mock sing it like I was a Billy goat. Once the era ended, I never thought I’d have to hear it again. Damn you, album generator. The rest of this album is a complete snooze fest, as well.
An inspirational album for me blending electronic beats and acoustic guitar. David Gray is of course an awesome songwriter and he was at his peak on this one.
The only way I can describe this is bland, this is like eating boiled chicken breast with rice and broccoli, devoid of anything that sparks enjoyment
Kontynuacja średnich albumow. 3
Easy listening experience
Man it was fine I guess, this years love was my favorite?
not terrible but very boring
I enjoyed this listen not a whole lot else to say
I don’t really know why this is on the list but it’s not a bad album by any means. Just a little bit of the same over and over again, granted that little bit is very enjoyable
didn't know about this at all I think. good
3,5
released by dave matthews’ label? [pretends to be shocked] (derogatory)
Singer/songwriter folk album with acoustic guitars and a lot of influence from 2000s electronica. It's an interesting idea but those are all things that I tend to find boring and the combination is exactly that. I found it very difficult to get through.
such a great album. Takes me back to living in London. 4.5
The first song makes the album sound like a promising blend of folktronica and singer-songwriter, but as it progresses, it becomes clear that the guy only knows how to sing in the same melodramatic and slow way, the acoustic guitar also sounds almost exactly the same in every song, and the electronic elements that initially made the first songs kind of interesting are slowly disappearing and almost nowhere to be found in the latest pieces. So yes, quite unfortunate I ended up disliking the album, because I really liked the intro track, "Please Forgive Me", but that's what there is when the artist decides to make the album more monotone as it goes. Besides, I don't want to end the review without mentioning the terrible cover. The background picture looks nice, but the black image in the center and the name of the album and artist being white Arial font are absolutely horrendous (that's in the standard version, as in the CD one the words are in another awful font).
Can't stand his whiny voice
nope
One of my favorite albums
Almost like John Mayer. But he's far from induction into the songwriters hall of fame. Had some really great songs tho.
Фолк с электроникой, понравилось, буду переслушивать.
I know more of these songs than I thought I would.
Really just fine
Pleasant!
Milquetoast dross for middle-class white people.
It's hard for me to get over the production. It's corny. Like the missing link between Peter Gabriel and Coldplay.
As I've stated before, don't read the 1 and 2 star reviews. They are always negative bullshit. The magic in this project is the reviews about being a road trip favorite growing up or the guy wooing his soon to be wife. But anyway, this album is fantastic. First time hearing it and I'm putting it in the top 25 of new to me albums in this project. Let go of your heart, let go of your head is the mantra.
I've been obsessed with Babylon for the past couple weeks so this was well timed. Tbh I was a bit disappointed with the rest of the album though. Sorta repetitive and not super original. Low end of the 3 range. Fave songs: Babylon, Say Hello Wave Goodbye
I really enjoyed the first song. I wish I had more positive things to say. Well that’s a bit of an exaggeration because I know how to explain why I didn’t connect with this album as a whole. It starts great, super instrumentally interesting song with fast drum machine beats combined with a haunting piano, creates a really original sound (for the time). And I was engaged from that point on, and I didn’t hate Babylon, it was just the start of the problem that never went away. Which is it becomes like so painfully radio friendly that it loses all identity and atmosphere cause it just feels so safe and boring like a real studio lead production. There’s nothing critically wrong with this album, it just doesn’t have that special sauce/seasoning to make it a real bold stand out. I just felt after the first song I got more and more bored as the album went on. For what it’s worth if there’s a single of that opening track I’m gunna find it to add it to my collection.
4,5
Kohlscore
I remember “Babylon”... and I also remember how much it annoyed me, because it was everywhere! Anyway, these songs have always struck me as nothing more than huge, whiny tunes—the way they stay on the air for so long and how far they spread! I could definitely die without ever hearing this crap again; I’m just fine without it, thanks. I feel like I’m losing my enjoyment of this project; the album generator isn’t managing to surprise me like it used to: have we run out of albums that are really worth listening to before we leave this life?
I mean, it's nice music and I like listening to it. Is it fine art? Not so much. Tis neither brilliant nor awful, as most of the reviews seem to think x
Bland and boring music, for bland and boring people
I never heard of the genre folktronica but I like it very much
Oh, for fuck's sake. Really?
This sounds like the soundtrack for a romcom from late 90s - early 00s, particularly something like Bridget Jones. This was just boring, the first couple tracks had me thinking this would be a fun listen once it picked up, only for it to not pick up and stay mellow and placid throughout. I am not a fan of his voice, and my biggest pet peeve is when the acoustic guitar is overused, and it is on the verge of abuse here. It's just so dull, clearly this is Ed Sheerans favourite album. Fav Track: Babylon
Definition of mediocre
Pedestrian easy listening. Why is it even on the list?
Here in the US there is a specific age range (45-55) that more than likely owns this on some CD somewhere, either the real deal or ripped from an MP3. Most of these people don't know where this CD is and forgot they owned it about 20 years ago. People on either side of that specific age range have never heard this and somehow that encapsulates this. This is nice, at the time it reintroduced the soul baring acoustic guitar guy that had gone extinct for a bit. 3 almost 4 star album (and yes, I own my original copy still).
A bit much of the same sound. If you're in the mood for raspy whimpering vocals, it works really well. Otherwise it's got some slight electronic intervention that makes it "fresh", and currently not very impressive. Hard to hate, not much to love. 2.7/5
horrifically boring
Неплохой спокойный поп. Один хит в альбоме. И еще пара неплохих песен. В остальном скучновато. На троечку
When this album came out, the DJ at the Modern Rock radio station I where I was working said (on air) "I thought that after the death of Jeff Buckley, we saw the end of the singer-songwriter thing. Looks like i was wrong. Too bad." I don't really care for the singer-songwriter genre either. But after listening to the first few song I could understand why people do. Not that I liked these songs at all... but I got it. Then I listened to the rest of the album. It's boring AF. All these songs sound the same to me with little nuance. It also seems that some contributors to this book were just plain lazy. I feel they only thought about the questiion for a day or so and then just answered with something current (or at least recent within 10 years) and called it a day. If they had actually thought about it, they would have known that this album would have not stood any type of test of time at all.
Couple of bangers
boring
I love Babylon, and had this cd for a while when it first came out. I didn't care much for it back then, but this was a different perspective and I enjoyed it.
esta cerca del 2 pero algunas cosas lo salvan, es un álbum muy rebajado. favs: White Ladder" y "This Year's Love". 3.4
This has a Dylan'esque vibe to it that was unique enough to not feel derivative. Not bad at all.
Gets a 4 for nostalgia. Millenial white lady, did you expect something different? 4/5
Booringgggggggg
Babylon came on and I laughed this album was nada
Super bland and uninteresting acoustic pop/rock that the 90s/early 00s was ripe with. Unfortunately this album has nothing interesting to say, and the production is absolutely abysmal. How was this so popular?
better than i expected but not his best
You take the keys out of the ignition and grab the cellophane wrapped CD from the passenger seat. You turn it over. David Gray, White Ladder. You tap it nervously against your fingers. You know she likes "Babylon", who doesn't, it is all over the radio and the album was released by Dave Matthew's record label, so it ought to be good . Will it set the mood? You get out of the car, and walk up the unfamiliar path to the front door. The key sticks a little as you unlock the front door, and you walk into the foyer, still full of boxes. You put the key back into the pocket of your jean shorts, and kick off your new balances. "Honey? I am home." "In here, unpacking the den." You had already unpacked the stereo, in preparation, and walk over, putting the disc in. You find your wife in the den, going through boxes of books. You do a little shuffle dance over, and she eyes you suspiciously. "The end of summer always makes you goofy," she snorts. "Hey, its just now the beginning of September." "What is this album?" She says going back to the books. "David Gray, the guy who does that Babylon song." "Oh, nice!" "Apparently it just reach no.1 in August. So I thought I'd pick it up." "It's nice" You go over and kiss her ear. "You know, we don't need to unpack ALL the way before we try again." She giggles "oh jeez, this gets you in the mood huh" she snorts. "Just like how you would always put on Crash in the dorms whenever you were getting ready to make a move." "Hey! A guy can try! Besides, its our decade! We just got this house, and in 10 years I am sure it would double. It's early September a year after the elections, and things aren't as bad as they say they were gonna be! I just got that raise and promotion at Enron. It's all coming up!" "Okay. okay" she smiles, "I'll meet you upstairs. Untuck that polo though and ditch the braided belt first." --- An album that marked contemporary adult music for a decade to come. Not my bag of tea.
zzzzzzz
recall “Babylon” coming out and thinking it sucked out loud. Gray made Dave Matthews’ singing style feel articulate, and I always pictured him as a yawp-jawed bobblehead, the vague forms of lyrics jostling out of his mouth by chance. Suffice it to say this is my first time listening to the album in toto. I do feel like if you saw David Gray in a crowd, no you didn't. His most distinguishing feature is that he looks sort of like nothing. Like the taste of air… technically it's there, but not really? And his music is pretty much the same. Sure, technically these are songs, but unless I force myself to hear them as often as Babylon was forced on us, I will not remember any of them. The most notable bit is the maniac insistence of putting a fruity-loops synthetic percussion track over (never under) these sparsely composed, boring as hell songs. If you told me this was early AI I would believe it. If you told me that this album was just 50 minutes of silence, I won't be able to confirm it wasn't. On the one hand, these are songs that never needed to be written. On the other, are any of these songs intentional enough to say they were written at all? The longer this goes on the more inessential it feels. It's as mealy mouthed as John Mayer but without the guitar chops. It manages to stuff absolutely terrible sounds (We're Not Right's weird pattering and annoying ufo synth) into songs that still immediately want to escape your brain. I'm not going to remember what these notes refer to in the morning. It's the musical equivalent of putting water in your cornflakes…bland made blander and at least a little psychopathic to enjoy it. It's 50 minutes of silent farts in the wind. And it was on the charts for three years? They thought any of these songs, much less five, made decent singles? This is apparently the album where music died. ⭐️ ½ for killing music. For that matter, ⭐️ ½ to anyone who bought this album.
Highlights: Babylon, Nightblindness, Silver Lining, This Year's Love, Say Hello Wave Goodbye An attempt to make a 90s Dylan that kinda failed. Gray just comes off as a cheap "mature" teenage romance singer. Musically there are some good songs, but for every Babylon you have a We're Not Right... Compared to Dylan's relatively timeless sound, a good number of these tracks can easily be placed in their time period. Lyrically I find it to be a mixed bag. Some songs are a bit too shallow and on the nose, while some are just amazing. For instance I never thought about why Babylon is named that way, but when I read about the religious background of it it clicked great with the rest of the lyrics. I was also positively surprised with the decision to cover a new wave song (Hello Goodbye), especially since it's Soft Cell whose material fits perfectly with the themes of this record.
Очень приятненько
Я человек простой. Слышу - манк ноет. Ставлю 4.
Отлично действует как снотворное
ровный, но вялый однотипный альбом - 3
Lite pop album.
I have a very special rela. w this album. Heard Babylon randomly on the radio while driving to work in Rome, only caught half the song and didn't know who it was. Fast fwd to me on a beach in Thailand Aug 2000 - a bartender put this record on & when I heard Babylon I sat upright like, OHMYGOD!?IT'STHATSONG from April - copied the name, David Gray, White Ladder, off I went. Moved to NYC from Rome that Sept. and started working as mgr of Radio 105 Milan in nyc starting Feb 2001 - guess who ends up coming to nyc for a show at Radio City, David Gray. I lose my mind and say I've been looking for him for ages, heard him in April on radio etc and the DJ for us at the time Rosario says, I was the only one in Italy who had that record if you heard it on the radio it's bc I played it!! We got front row at Radio City and I cried w joy throughout the show, then w our radio station creds and passes we HUNG OUT W THE MAN after the show, spent the eve together. I cannot listen to this without shedding a tear, I am for some reason so emotionally attached to this record I LOVE IT SO MUCH - bought everything he ever made and give him and whiteladder a 10 not a 5 sorry I am partial ; )
This has an intentional pace, like reading a diary decades after it’s written. It’s reflective but not as emotionally charged as in the moment. The feelings conjured up now have fresh perspective of knowing where those twists and turns led.
take a walk - anywhere - put this album on and just give yourself over to reflections on love and loss and joy and life. This album holds a special place for me as well (loved the story RR). If it touches you it really takes hold. What more can you ask of an artist?
didnt finish..
Kinda repetitive.
1. Sail Away 2. Silver Lining 3. White Ladder Really like the blend of acoustic and electronic sounds. Felt that many of the songs did overstay their welcome, though.
I struggled to reach the end. So inoffensively pleasant it’s actually offensive. Whoever thought this is one of the 1000 best albums ever is literally insane.
Like his voice and good songs.
This is a guilty pleasure of mine. Been listening to this for 25 years and it still sounds good. A bit flabby in the middle but the first 3 and last 3 songs are fantastic including the Soft Cell cover.
Solid album some great guitar in here.
Found the songwriting kinda vague and messy
Kinda great, kinda generic ... can it be both? I enjoyed it but wasn't humming anything after I listened to it.
Ehh, was not in the mood.
Inoffensive and inconsequential.
Intéressant. Je peux comprendre l influence qui a eu sur certains artistes. Mais, c est loin d être mon style. 6/10
Cringey 90s overproduction but I genuinely like some of the songs
1. forgive - 1 2. baby - 1 3. my - 1 4. right - 1 5. night - 1 6. zilver - 1 7. ladder - 1 8. love - 1 9. zail - 1 10. hello - 2
I actually enjoyed this album a bit. It started off decently strong and genuinely had great production value all the way through. At the end of it though, I don’t know who David Gray IS. This album is very much a meandering disjointed collection of late 90s turn of the century love songs.
It always interests me when an artist nails it for one album - right sound, right timing - but then none of their other work lives up to it. For me it somehow devalues that album, because it seems like a bit of a fluke. This is how I came into listening to White Ladder, but you know what? A good album is a good album, whether it's one of many for an artist, or it's far and away their career highlight. This album was popular at the time for a reason.
Fine, fine and inoffensive and forgettable, like a ladder painted white or a man called David Gray
I enjoyed aspects - the slightly trip hop vibe - but couldn't get on board with his voice - also random but went to a party last night and pulled out a cd from the shelf and by chance it was this one! What are the odds!
Coworker music
This is riding that line of easy to listen to so much that you almost ignore it. There's some interesting choices. He has a good voice. It knows what it's doing. Not that great.
This is an odd ball. First listen to the song Babylon, I was driving by farmers working in the early morning sun and the song really hit. On a second listen not as much. This music is easy to ignore.
pretty good low key listening the softness of this album and the electronic elements are nice 7/10 Favourite: Say Hello Wave Goodbye Least Favourite: White Ladder
Please Forgive Me if I enjoy this one too much. Great album. Please Forgive Me is a great song and such a great setter for the album My Oh My its very good This Years Love is beautiful, wonderful ballad. Sail Away and Babylon are classics. Night blindness is lovely. White Ladder is a great song Say Hello Wave Goodbye is a great closer, wonderful cover If this is my last 5*, so be it.
6/10… mellow / singer-songwriter / *1998
Probably not an album I would listen to often, but a consistently good album, and Bablyon is very good. 4 stars or B.
I'm not the audience for this record. There's something intangible I'm gesturing at or reaching for when I say that some albums express themselves wrapped inside of all the tropes of their genre while others eschew the well worn path. And, for White Ladder, I don't know if this record helped shape some of the tropes it finds itself wholly enmeshed in or if it's merely a trick of history that it sounds so steeped in cliche now. The record feels so firmly "adult contemporary" like it wants to be the picture of being open and honest in a grown-up way. I can see David Gray looking deeply into the mirror of himself grappling with the big issues of his heart as he strives to put them into lyrics that really communicate the depth of his thoughts and emotions... Or, at least that's what he'd like us to think because somehow the result is way too neat. So, I'm left to wonder if there's anything more there as the record fails to actually surprise or inspire. I can't help but downgrade it from a 2 star rating to a 1 star rating out of boredom. I admit it won't be the worst album of that lot. More than anything listening to this, I can imagine these songs as soundtracks for Lifetime TV specials that the cool middle-American moms are watching.
508/1089 - Nice and mellow. Some dated keyboard sounds (Roland SC-78?) and extremely samey though. In-between a 3 and a 4 for me.
There’s actually some pretty good songwriting on here (especially smash hit “Babylon”) but the production is so weirdly muddy and bad. I’d much rather just put on some Coldplay.
The soundtrack to every late 90s/early 00s dinner party or BBQ. You've heard the songs before but they are somehow instantly forgettable.
Good memories
Album #101: White Ladder - David Gray Genre (W): Folktronica Singles: This Year’s Love, Babylon, Please Forgive Me, Sail Away, Say Hello Wave Goodbye I have not listened to this album before. Thoughts?: It sounds nice, the production is sleek. But overall, this is a very boring album, it all just sounds too safe and bland to be anything noteworthy. A very dull album. Favorite songs: Babylon, This Year’s Love
It was okay. A little unremarkable considering all the other great music in the genre that was released around the same time.
Would I listen again: yeah Couple of songs I really liked and overall a high 3, very pleasant and listenable. Just not super dynamic I guess
Unbelievably vapid and boring music. I don’t know if it is, but this is what i think of when I think of 90s “adult contemporary” music
Haven't heard of this guy in my entire life, genuinely surprised to see the number of streams on the songs here. Discovering this album didn't improve my life in any way though. David's voice is pretty annoying and so is the music at times. 90s nothingburger 2/5
Chill album. I like the first song Please Forgive Me.
I was not familiar with David Gray but very nice. I did enjoy the lesser known tracks as well as the more popular ones. A couple of tracks in the middle are a bit sparse but still good. Rating this highly won't help the generator telling me that my favourite music is from the UK, but it is what it is.
06/04 Pretty good
Very sure of its concept - that concept is being vapid guitar driven wine music. Aside from the nostalgia reasons, I don’t think I’d ever be like “oh man, could you chuck on a bit of David Gray? That just gets me going!”
Never listened to this though it was ubiquitous in my youth! Think I assumed it'd be boring. First 20 seconds, thought I was going to really enjoy it but then quickly realised DG is the man who Ed Sheeran could've been. Or vice versa. Actually, that's unfair.... Much more interesting than ES. Perfectly fine and, perhaps, even actively "good" if in the right headspace. Sonically, very much of its time. Almost simplistic / DIY sounding.
I always thought of David Gray as a one hit wonder, but didn’t realize how much success this album had. It’s really good, although his vocals begin to wear on me after a bit.
A little on the dull side, but not as tedious as memory serves 3.5*
This was quite nice
2 out of 5. Sad music but decent production.
I'm a basic white girl so this drew me in hook line and SINKER yo
3.3 God I remember when this came out. Deleted it from my memory bank it seems. Bit old sad bastard music-y - couldn't get the thought out of my head of it sounding like a manc guy doing an impression of Eddie Vedder. This Years Love is a lovely song, some others are good, but most just vanish into forgetfulness.
Mid
Didn't listen this time around, but I do like this album
(5/7) some of these sounded familiar. the acoustic style feels very modern - more reminiscient of the 2010s than the 90s
Starbucks ass album
Gray believes that the success of White Ladder paved the way for "soul-baring" artists such as James Blunt, Ed Sheeran, George Ezra, James Bay, and Tom Walker.
It's alright, but if you've heard one, you've heard them all. It's a good song, but he does it too many times with different lyrics. Nowt spesh.
felt like a mix of bob dylan and Bruce Springsteen to me. I enjoyed this one
I guess it’s well done? I found it boring and a little pretentious.
Exquisitely mediocre
Lovely! A British Ray LaMontagne or John Cougar. His vocal style took a bit to get used to, but I was moved to. The Romance is strong with this one.
I kept thinking I should hate this, but I didn't. Not sure I really liked it. I certainly wouldn't listen to it again. But it wasn't awful. Definitely started to drag and feel repetitive toward the end, but it wasn't terrible. In light of some other albums we've had to listen to, I guess I can be grateful for that. Although maybe being terrible might have made it more interesting? Overall the impression here is just of monotony, which is probably not what Gray was going for.
Not awful, not memorable.
Babylon was the name of the kebab shop in my home town in the Netherlands. It was a grand place to go at 4 am in the morning after having a skinful of lager and smoking Gauloises blue cigarettes. The chips were absolutely delicious and so was the doner kebab. This was always my go to place as the other place wasn't as nice. Great album this, fuck the haters, great production, and readily available at all charity shops in the UK. So it must have sold pretty well. Well done David!
Not really my thing, but pretty good. It’s very reminiscent of this kind of melancholic but pretty pop of the late 90’s and 2000’s. It kind of scratches an itch where I don’t really ache. Likeable and worthwile to listen to but probably not something I’ll revisit. The songs don’t really distinguish themselves from one another all that much.
Here I thought this was the guy from Simply Red (Mick H.) gone solo. For crying out loud, indeed. I gave a good effort to listen through this record, but some kind of aesthetic allergy set in and irritated me over the top. Of course, the mostly acoustic instruments and arrangements were nice, but the signer's self-assured, inane, garish sunshine was insufferably off-putting, for some reason. In any case, cheers to everyone else who is into this unholy alliance with Dave Matthews and his ilk.
I'm unable to be objective here. This album came out at a very pivotal time in my life and having music that brought me some tranquility was a necessity. Also helped me woo my now-wife, so it's well worth the inclusion here.
A lovely album, though outside of the hits that have been seared into my brain through the early naughts/watching The Girl Next Door, the rest faded into a very pleasant background hum.
I didn’t know what I was getting into here. The album was fine. Some songs I did enjoy. I don’t know if I like his voice. I noticed Apple Music gave him song credit for Say Hello, Wave Goodbye.
So much noise. I don’t remember anything already
This is derivative pop-folk music that adds next to nothing to the style. Low hanging fruit. Nothing to write home about. A respectful nod to 'Say Hello, Wave Goodbye'. There's a classic Van Morrison vibe there in the way he sings.
Loved this at the time. It’s just a load of nothing now. Singles are still good though
Had a unique sound and good songs. I used to play (or at least back up the guy playing these) a lot of these to drunken expats. It holds up pretty well even with the kinda chintzy electric drums. Love the hook in that soft cell song, though my erstwhile partner sang it better.
Good instrumentation, solid melodies, overall forgettable
I bought this album when it was released on the mere fact it had a sticker on it that said something regarding Dave Matthew’s - whom I followed like crazy at the time. This album turned out to be one of the defining albums of the soundtrack of my own life. Great record. Not a bad song anywhere on it.
It feels like an album in late 2010s. Very very good arrangement. Loved it. Does feel repetitive but I’ll let it get away with it. A weak 5!
what an album for a commute. had never heard of david gray before and was pleasantly surprised. would definitely keep this in rotation!
One of my all-time favorite rainy day albums to play while just hanging out at home. This Years Love is probably the most popular song on this album, but Babylon is by far my favorite. I can concede that his singing voice can be whiny at times and the middle of the album blends together, but my bias is rating this album.
A pretty standard singer songwriter album.
Was hoping for this to be something David Holmes-like... turned out to be half true, as this feels like a crossing between that, Manic Street Preachers, and Grant Lee Buffalo. But worse. Or a predecessor to James Blunt. Another album that can't fool you about which decade it was created in. 'Babylon' is a fairly good song, but the rest don't particularly speak to me. While pretty bad criticism, there is just something about David's voice that doesn't make it feel genuine. Mid 3.
I had a hard time making up my mind on this one. At times it felt way too produced and sweet; other times I found myself bopping along. I honestly thought David Gray was a one-hit wonder since I’d only heard “This Year’s Love,” which is a good song and also just barely threads the needle of being too sweet and overproduced, as I mentioned earlier. Going with a skeptical 3. Maybe this grows on you, or maybe it gets worse with every listen. I honestly don’t know.
fav songs: please forgive me whiny, repetitive, forgettable 30/100
Great.
Not sure why so many people hate this album! I played it death when it can out and still play it now and again now. Crammed with great tunes and lyrics and finishes with a really great cover of a great song, job done!
It’s been a while since I’ve heard this. It brought back some memories, not my favorite, but definitely some songs I remember from years ago like Babylon etc…
I mean realistically it shouldn't get more than a 2 but some of these tracks are so nostalgic and hold a lot of sentimental value.
No standouts
Pleasant but sounds too quiet to be memorable. This year's love was a big hit in France.
Babylon was as bit hit when it came out and is a nice enough song. The opening track showed some potential but it all ended up too safe and boring.
3.5
3.5
I was surprised that I vaguely recognized two of these songs.
Oh man, this album is amazing. David Gray will draw you in and you can’t help but fall head first into it. Put it on when you’re walking, riding or just commuting, it will travel well where ever you’re heading.
made me think of moby, I liked a few songs like Babylon, good vibe overall
It was ok. Another album where nothing stood out, but nothing was bad.
easy listening, aber eher schon zu schmalzig.
Wunderbar
This is a great album for someone who has never listened to music before. It's accessible and literally anything you listen to after will be better than it.
No skip perfection
Honestly, I think this album would be more effective as instrumental music. I did not love the singer's voice. I enjoyed the track My Oh My and most of them on the 1st half of the album. Nothing specifically caught my attention and not something I would seek out again. Overall, its not bad, but not good either. Tbh, would be fire to study to though!
Forgot I listened to this about 10 minutes after finishing it
2,8/5
3/5
David es un romántico, letras que se sienten sinceras y cercanas porque no uso lenguaje complicado Usa elementos de electrónica en algunas de las piezas lo cual se ve innovador para este tipo de baladas y especialmente siendo este álbum del 98 Ya después de un tiempo puede sentirse algo similar, pero cada canción busca exponer un tema distinto Mucho mérito por hacer una buena base de aficionados de forma muy sutil, ya que no es un nombre que se escuche mencionar mucho al menos del lado de América dónde me ubico
I don’t know why I love this one so much
Peaceful, sad, uplifting. Great album.
Ehkä hieman rallattelu. Ihan decent taustamusiikiksi.
I liked this overall. This was fun and very calming. An enjoyable listen for sure. David Gray is a great singer. This doesn't do anything too special tho Liked Songs: "Please Forgive Me" , "Babylon" , "Nightblindness" , "This Year's Love" , "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye"
A curious one, this. A bedroom record that somehow learned how to behave in public without ever really changing its clothes. What strikes me most is how controlled it is. Everything sits within a very narrow emotional and sonic range - loops, acoustic guitar, soft electronics, and a vocal that never really raises its voice. No spikes, no shocks, no great reveal. It just holds a feeling and lets it run. That could have been fatal. On paper, this is exactly the sort of thing that disappears without trace - too quiet, too unassuming, no obvious scene to carry it. Instead, it does the opposite. It embeds. You don’t have a moment where you fall in love with it, you just notice you haven’t stopped playing it. The method is the thing. This is singer-songwriter material processed through a repeatable system - closer to synth-pop working practice than folk performance. Patterns first, feeling laid over the top. It gives the songs a kind of portability. They don’t depend on performance energy, so they travel. Headphones, car, kitchen, doesn’t matter. Same job, every time. Lyrically it stays in one lane - relationships under strain, distance, trying to hold things together. There is very little sense of a wider world. No characters, no humour, no shift in perspective. Just one voice, circling the same set of feelings until they settle. That is either its strength or its limitation, depending on what you want. “Sail Away” is probably the purest expression of the whole approach. Simple piano figure, minimal movement, voice doing all the work. Nothing to hide behind, nothing to add. It either lands or it doesn’t. For me, that is the point where the album makes the most sense. The Soft Cell cover is revealing in a different way. By stripping out the theatricality and running it through this system, you can hear the working method clearly. The Van Morrison phrasing and lyrical nods pull it even further away from its original context. As a die-hard Cellmate, that takes a moment to adjust. It is less a reinterpretation than a re-domestication. The emotional contract is very clear - this will not upset the room. It will not challenge you. It will sit alongside your life and behave itself. That is why it sold, and kept selling. It anticipates portable listening before the ecosystem properly arrived. Not a big statement, more a useful object. I can admire it without quite loving it. It is touching in places, but so resolved that I find myself slightly outside it, watching it work rather than being pulled in. And yet it is hard to argue with. It does exactly what it sets out to do, with very few moving parts, and almost no waste
Respect for pioneering the genre. Just not my thing.
I am pretty sure I discovered this album because Dave Matthews was recommending it back when I listened to what Dave Matthews had to say. My wife and I loved this album and listened to it a lot back in the day. I probably haven't listened to it in over 10 years but it all came right back to me.
a very ordinary folk pop rock ish album
Havde troet, at den her ville være et mere glædeligt genlyt. Der er nogle gode numre på, specielt til slut, men det var ikke den helt store genkendelsesglæde, som jeg havde troet, det ville være.
I'm pretty sure that I once heard one of these songs in the waiting area at a generic fast-casual restaurant somewhere in a generic suburb of a mid-sized, immemorable US city.
All the songs sound generally the same. Same tempo, same background percussion track, etc. Nothing offensive about this album, nothing of note, easy guitar included listening lull you into a torpor and bury you in the mundane.
Très très cool 4-/5
Very good better than I remembered traces in a way of Neil Young. An upper score well crafted well arranged.
Surprisingly good. Title track and Babylon are the two worst songs.
garbage
Booooring
Rode the line between decent songwriter stuff and meh songwriter stuff. 2.5 but I’ll round down.
Great Songs: Babylon Good Songs: Please Forgive Me, My Oh My, We're Not Right, Nightblindness, Silver Lining, This Year's Love, Sail Away, Say Hello, Wave Goodbye Mid Songs: White Ladder Bad Songs:
3 stars. I enjoyed the vibe
Basic ig.
If there is a Muzak Museum somewhere this is playing in its elevator. No soul, radio friendly beige designed for soccer mums. Assume it pairs well with margaritas in a bowl and Lonely Lost Reisling.
🎧Please Forgive Me, Babylon, and This Year’s Love are good to great. Everything else is alright but largely forgettable.
Me gusta el tono de voz, please forgive me es lindo tema. Temporalmente me da la misma sensacion a Simply Red. Babylon creo que me lo guardo en una playlist, aun asi es como muy generico el album. Nightblindness me gusto muy tierno el tema.
I thought his voice sounded familiar, then it got to “Babylon” and my time working in a grocery store caught up to me. I quickly realized how many hits this guy had, too. Friendly folk rock for the public, all, if I may. There’s something quintessentially 90s singer-songwriter that’s bottled here. I personally think it’s pretty dated and wasn’t impressed, but maybe this sounded fresh and breezy at the time. It’s not that it grated on me. It just moved me not at all.
Pretty enjoyable and sometimes beautiful indie rock. Had a good time. This years love is a pretty one of course, but it was pretty enjoyable the whole way through. Strong 3
4 stars (I actually love this album) vs 2 stars (it clearly has no place on this list. So an uneasy 3.
Number: 107 Date: 1998 Artist: David Gray Album: White Ladder Year: 1998 Genre: Folktronic Familiarity: None Rating: Before: ======= Never heard of this or David Gray. I'm anticipating some sort of ambient electronic vibe. During: ======= Starts of nice for an early Sunday morning. Hm, Wikipedia calls it "Folktronic". I like the name but not sure it fits, but maybe I'll use it...Six songs in now, this is reminding me of I Am Kloot who I don't see on the list at all, which is too bad, as they were really good. I would definately have I Am Kloot in my top 1000 and probably in my top 100 list. 3 Through To Myself 5 Please Forgive Me 5 Babylon 4 My Oh My 4 We're Not Right 4 Silver Lining 3 White Ladder 4 This Year's Love 4 Sail Away 4 Say Hello Wave Goodbye 3 Nightblindness ----------------------------------------------------- 3.99 WEIGHTED AVERAGE (accounts for song lengths) After : ======= Overall a pretty good album. 4 my personal rating 4 suitability for this list 3 impact ----------------------------------------------- 3.7 composite rating
The classic album to put on as background music during dinner. Inoffensive, unobtrusive and bland
Never heard of David Gray until now. Wish I still hadn't. 1
Very guy with a guitar at the party, but this time he’s got a synth and drum machine. First two songs were promising but the rest proved to be forgettable at best, grating at worst.
Very up my alley, nice, calm, mellow. Won't go out of my way to listen to it but I'm not upset to hear it? Best Song: Babylon Rating: 6.0/10 Stars: 3
Folktronica.
This really screams late 90s early 00s. kind of bland and forgettable to me. never heard about this artist or any of the songs so it don't really seem so impactful culturally (I feel like if it has a big cultural/music impact people who don't listen at least know about the artist in some way) Not bad though, easy listen and well written. just very forgettable after 1 listen
David is talented, but this particular album didn’t stick with me too much (i did like his cover of soft cell tho!)
Really enjoyed this album front to back. Easy listening. You can hear some of influences in his music. At least I hear some Tom Petty, Tom Cochrane, etc..
Good vocal work. Good lyrics. Not my cup of tea, but enjoyable.
Not bad, but kinda bland. Babylon was a good song, but nothing else here was that memorable.
Kinda boring
this album makes me feel like I should be crying in the rain in some rom-com. Idk how to feel about that.
Very soothing album. Don't think I've heard of this artist or album before but I feel like I should have. Babylon is definitely my favorite, very calming and feels like a sunny day, and I remember the whole album being enjoyable. 6.9/10.
Poor man's Dave Matthews?
1.5 - started off ok but the rest wasn’t good
About the best thing to come from listening to this album was being able to recogise that Babylon was the song I have half-heard in a hundred things over my life, and to finally hear the lyrics clearly. I did not enjoy this, but it added to my store of knowledge, and, like the rest of the album, listening to this song was a horrible, dreary experience. Sappy, overdone caterwauling for singing, bland music, agonising sentiments. Dire.
Overall: 5/10 Not terrible, but kind of bland and boring. It actually got off to a pretty good start and I like the first 3 songs a lot, but it seemed a little overproduced after that and way too generic. Fav Song: Babylon
Definitely some good tracks here, and an interesting representative of the sound of the time, when bouncy but light electronic beats paired with easy acoustic guitars was on the radio and in home stores. But there's a sameness to a lot of it. On the list? It's a sign of the age, so yes. But I wouldn't put it on my own list.
I really enjoyed this record. It was a great chill, background style album that perfect fit my mood. I tried another album from David with less impact, but this was a great record.
ya know what? I can kinda see why the Brits were obsessed with this album for like three years straight. This album is chill as hell. Favorite track: My Oh My 3.5/5
Great album
6/10
I liked this one, very calm and the same age as me.
This was nice, calming…great album to color my hair with.
I read this guys bio on Spotify and it says Adele and Ed Sheerhan credit him as an influence. So it makes sense that I didn’t like this. I don’t hate it, it’s just not anything special to me. It sounds like drug store music. It’s dull and overproduced.
Δυστηχώς αυτό το άλμπουμ μου φάνηκε ελαρφώς αργό για τα γούστα μου. Δεν είναι ότι δεν μου άρεσαν τα κομμάτια, αλλά το να το ακούς όλο συνεχόμενα (1 ώρα) είναι λίγο δύσκολο. Επίσης σε κάποια σημεία μου θύμισε ελαφρώς Pearl Jam. Please Forgive Me
Boring agan
Such a great album to this day. I was bought this 26 years ago as a present on CD as a 21 year old just starting a relationship with my child's mum. This and Moby's Play. What a time to be alive. Maybe nostalgia carries this a long way for me, but isn't that what music is all about anyway.
Enjoyable enough but not really my vibe.
Really chill album, great for the weekend. The only song I think I recognized was Babylon.
Rock? Nope, not here. More like Easy Listening. Pleasant. Sleep aid.
Pop bullshit. Doesn’t deserve more words than that.
Legit a life changer.