Title: idling the engine
Product review: This DeLorean CD has much going for it -- stunning, vivid production, spare and at times haunting folk rock arrangements that border on slo-core, an air of woebegone cool, but the one thing it's missing, and I really hate to say this, is great songs. It really takes a plunge at "beachcomber blues," which just never seems to go anywhere. I like the vibe here and the way the band thinks. I can "feel" the tug of war between emotional pain and detachment. It's a road well traveled by the likes of Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon and Grant Lee Buffalo, but the invention is not there. Musical ideas are begun but seem not to have been developed. The song has taken a back seat to the sound. Everything is very simple; the chords never take you to someplace new. This disc is going to sound very good to some people, and that's good, but I think I've been around listening to too much for too long because I just felt my mind wandering. I wanted it to be more.
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