Reviews (page 14 of 14)
Herkkää. Jazzahtavaa.
no preconceived notions whatsoever. sounds like john prine if you take away his world weariness, but also if john prine made me sleep. soooo boring. the words are sophomoric, which is undnerstandabe if you know that he was 22 when this came out. around a fourth is instrumental so i guess it's good that the arrangements are clean. i tried really hard to like it, but it just bores me so. no tracks stand out, all just seem to bleed into the next one.
Sometimes risk aversion can bite you on the ass. By stripping away anything offensive to his delicacy--like, er, strong beats or hooks--Drake’s gentle rhythms, which hold up from start to finish, take on an insistent prettiness. Throw in his bizarrely mannered vocals and nursery rhyme lyrics (not necessarily a bad thing) and it’s well-conceived as a whole. Unfortunately, I find insistent prettiness annoying. I wanted the strings and horns in ‘At the Chime of a City Clock’ to stop being so sheepish, and to tell John Cale that his harpsichord on ‘Fly’ was like too much exposition in a costume drama. Lots of scene-setting. Little action.
Chato demais!
This is not for me.
Terrible
Not a fan
I didn't feel like this was anything special.
Really sad backstory did not make for a very interesting album. It was just a little bit whatever.
fantastic discovery thanks Nick Drake