Call Upon The Author

It’s nice, but is it necessary? I ask myself this whenever Ray LaMontagne, Damien Rice and Jose Gonzalez release a new LP. Usually the answer is “sure, why not”. I am not saying its a bad thing but the general pool of singer-songwriters often gets polluted by people who just do it because some chick in a bar said they have a nice voice when they did a cover of a Ryan Adams track. Boo Hewerdine, you have bored me to the point of running my head under a tap of boiling water and beating my fist into an orange. And the title frustrates me because I’m used to irony. Nevermind. I suppose each track is ‘nice’ but it never sways far from ‘nice’ and it always comes back to ‘nice’. Being overly critical is not my problem in this instance. I just want to hear something that’s not ‘nice’. Is it really too much to ask?