I had a listen to this tonight in the garden this afternoon whilst we had the family around. It probably wasn't the best time to listen to some music, but I'd told my United supporting brother about this thread in the past and he suggested putting on this weeks album so we did! He thought it was a really good idea doing this.
I'm not going to get much time to listen to it after today, so this review is based on listening to it with loads of kids running round whilst me and my brother listened to it sat at the bar in our garden :) we have very similar tastes.
We both thought it was above "ok", I can definitely hear why it's been picked - there's plenty of catchy hooks in there. It's got plenty of songs which get you going a bit and overall it was a good one to listen to. It always staggers me that there's people like James King writing songs like this, which are good songs, and just never really making it.
Our favourite tracks were "While I can" and "Fly away" which had great hooks with a retro vibe. To be fair, the whole album was good but .. the one thing which I'm going to "punish" though is the vocals, they reminded me of Dylan. As I've said before, Dylan is a titan of 20th Century music but apart from a few stand out songs, he simply has a terrible singing voice. His songs sound better when sung by other people. Why James King wants to emulate is beyond me! :) he should get someone else to sing!
Overall it was decent and definitely benefitted from a couple of beers and warm sun!
7/10
