Title: Mysterious whimsy or egotistical ranting?
Product review: The instrumentation is minimal on this album - there is a strong acoustic feel mixed with some unbalanced synthesised horns that immediately start alarms ringing for the quality of this album. The singer/songwriter so-called genius thinks that subconscious ramblings, amateur melodic writing and crazy vocal slides make a cult album. He's wrong. His lyrics are resolutely abstract and leave most listeners cold - or even wondering whether he is just plain mad. It isn't clever existentialism but just outpourings of an average mind. And the singing is bizarrely uncontrolled, rough-edged, overly mournful and often just ordinary shouting. The melodies could be written by a schoolboy and the production shows no artistic effort to overcome the cheap facilities that were clearly used. If you like bad singing, bad production, repetitive guitar riffs and inane melodies then you may like this album.
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