Title: good, but not ed's best work
Product review: if someone else had made this album, perhaps i'd have given it 5 stars. however, knowing what ed's capable of from his previous two albums and other releases, this just seems to fall short. the production on songs like "the storm is coming", "born in the 70s" and especially "loneliness" is a bit too much. these songs sound too conventional and radio-friendly compared to some of the eerie tunes on "from every sphere", for example. there are some moments where ed tries to recapture this feeling, like on "an open book", but it doesn't wind up as poignant as tunes like "fireflies take flight" and "from every sphere". all this being said, it's a good album, and if you've already got "here be monsters" and "from every sphere", it's worth buying just to have some more ed harcourt in your library. but if you're just getting into ed harcourt, please start with the earlier works.
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