Amos Lee - Supply And Demand (Blue Note)
1/5
By: Alex Lee Thomson
The great thing about being in the rockfeedback family is that there's always a steady stream of truly incredible music heading your way, often things that you would have never otherwise heard. While this is quite an exciting prospect, sometimes it backfires and you find yourself fighting to see the good in an album that ordinarily you wouldn't even use as a coaster. The second album from US R&B / country singer Amos Lee is certainly one of these.
Partly due to the fact that there's less than anything original about it, partly because the style has been done into the ground by wishy-washy artists such as James Morrison and Jack Johnson, but mainly the reason that this album is so very, very horrifying is because it sounds far too much like Will Young to enjoy. We always try and see the positive side in any album as, after all, we all have different tastes and it's not for us to judge what's good or bad, rather to provide a critical and exact, and often passionate, depiction of what a piece of music is about... I'd be dumbfounded however if this fits into anybodies criteria for a favourite album. It's bland and often self indulgent music is fronted by a vocal that after two songs becomes generally annoying and blissfully pointless.
In fairness, it is a fairly non offensive album that could work as a Costa Coffee background record, but there's just so much great music out there that I can't condone anybody slaying an hour of their life with this rather futile and senseless album. Fans of the Morrison, Blunt, Johnson and Harper approach may find a few emotions to hang on this but for the majority, and it pains us to say (no really it does, we hate it when an album fails to evoke even the most basic feeling), it's just a silly waste of packaging.
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