If this is music to Reminisce to, as the title suggests, it’s music you’ll probably fall asleep to while doing it, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The soothing vocals of Nick Laird-Clowes inspire moods of solemnity and serenity.
These songs might be better without all the glossy production, but you’ll have a hard time finding a weed among them. The end of Here, a lullaby about home, is quite nice, along with The Lesson of Love and Power To Believe.
my rating : 3 of 5
1987
1987
1987
This album begins with a John Lennon song. It’s an odd move starting a set of otherwise original songs with a cover; one that makes for immediate conceptual awkwardness the album never gets good enough to make forgivable.
There are notable songs. Waterloo, about the train station in London, is relaxing. Saint Valentine’s Day offers sweet celtic vibes and a sweeping bridge-to-chorus section. Lowlands is also nice, but most of the rest is a dreary affair.
my rating : 3 of 5
1990
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