I used to write CD reviews. I was sent one CD to review that I could not bare to listen to beyond the first few seconds of each track. The harmony voices were horribly out of tune with each other and every song on the album was one I had heard a thousand times before elsewhere, with this singer adding nothing new, original or inspired.   

I sent the CD back, saying there was nothing good I could say about it so I would rather not review it at all. However it sounded to me, the people concerned had obviously put a lot of work in and tried their best. I did not want to be the one to damn them in print. However I put it, that would be how it would have looked. I would rather others hear the album and make their own minds up than be put off by anything I (or anyone else) might say before they have had a chance to hear for themselves. I discussed the album - privately - with someone who told me they enjoyed it. To this day I don't understand how they could have. Just goes to show.