Through The Cardinal Window - Gregg Kowalsky

Advantages: Cheerful with good lyrics
Disadvantages: Very soft

..., but personally I feel it borders on the realms of Busted and McFly in some places. However 'I Woke Up In a Car' is much better, with a great chorus and altogether a fantastic song. The record continues through other impressive tracks such as 'If You C Jordan', 'Hurricane' and 'Cavanaugh Park' before reaching my personal two highlights of the album. Track numbers 8 and 9 I think are great. 'Fall' is a simple enough song, with an easy chord progression and simple drumming. The vocals are great though, and the whole track works really well as a whole. It's amazing the way simple songs always manage to make the best sound! Track 9 'Straw Dog' is also great, containing some of the best lyrics on the album, combined with some great piano (which can be heard throughout the whole record). Admittedly Leaving Through The Window begins to slope... Read review

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Advantages: Very calming, relaxing listen
Disadvantages: Not one to get ready to on a Saturday night

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Advantages: A Thousand Beautiful Things
Disadvantages: I’m Goin’ Nowhere And I’m Light Years Back

...Well Annie Lennox - Pavement Cracks But let’s face some facts about my personal bias here. Annie Lennox could sing the greatest television commercial ditties of all time and I would sit here amazed and entranced by her voice. This album does represent a small departure for Annie in that it does not rely on a steady barrage of pop hooks and electronic dancing digits to put across something more closely resembling an album that might be done by someone like Carly Simon. The term ‘easy listening’ or ‘adult’ does come to mind quite frequently while making your way through the album, that's my admission to the fact a few songs on here are laborious, it most definitely could have used less of those over used Stevie Wonder-esque toodlings. Bare unfortunately does draw from some of the same imperfections we saw on Medusa and Diva. She... Read review

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