The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91134   Message #1734555
Posted By: Richard Bridge
07-May-06 - 12:43 PM
Thread Name: Free music - No Catch!
Subject: RE: Free music - No Catch!
Let me start by saying they are all better than me - BUT...

I have listened, and for my taste it all - with the exception of "The New Patriot" - sounds too like James Blount. Shame even that one is so electric in the arrangement but it's the only one with fire in its belly.

Are all the recordings produced by the same producer? With very few exceptions the acoustic guitar tone is thin - too "scooped" so you hear an initial "smack" and then a tizz from the higher strings. Some mid would have sounded rounder.

Vocals are too far back, and not projected enough.

The songs are mediocre, too. I know this is expressly "Singer Songwriter" but they are fairly (above exception excepted) quietly whiney. What happened to songs with "punch" - singer snogwriters do do some - Simon and Garfunkel's "Blessed", Paxton's "Death of Stephen Biko", quite a number of MacColl, "Morning Dew" "Come Away Melinda", etc etc.

Sorry to be so grumpy but saying sweetly "Very nice dear" doesn't help anyone to improve.... or to find a market to sell to.