This is the debut album by a 4 piece from Cork fronted by the band's songwriter Mike Lyons. It's a solid if largely forgettable collection. The production values are high but the songs lack passion or any real sense of drama with lyrics ranging from the pedestrian ("I am not good, but I'm not bad - I'm real") to the curiously dispassionate. In the break up song 'Don't Go Feeling Sad' the lines "circumstances change, situations don't remain" sounds more like the language you'd find in a business memo than to a loved one.
The mood of emotional detachment means that , all too often the songs come merely across as self conscious exercises in style rather than anything more heartfelt. On 'The Goddess', for example, there's an end-line rhyme sequence of : "breathe - trees - breeze - rapidly - galaxy - trajectory" which may have come directly from a poet's manual.
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The result is harmless enough in a daytime Radio 2 play list kind of way but, ultimately, the 10 songs end up sounding very samey - like a collection of anaesthetised Beatles tunes.
The drama here is strictly of the country kitchen sink variety and by the time the 40 minutes were up I was desperate for some undomesticated chaos .
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