17 October 2012

The Winter I Chose Happiness by Clare Bowditch

 

Overall quite a nice album without being outstanding.  Some songs in the collection seemed quite similar and had me wondering if I had already heard a song earlier.  Favourite tracks were 3, 4 and 6.

Didn't like the jazzy types (1 and 7), which sort of pushed the overall rating down for me.

Rating 3/5

 

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15 October 2012

Somebody’s Opus by Starboard Cannons

I found this a delightful album of folkish songs.  A few were somewhat  Scottish in flavour and others distinctly Australian. A couple of reviewers labelled the acoustic duo of  Ash Bell , who is also the singer, and Matt Bone as modern Australian folk musicians,  My favourite is track 5 Piano Accordion.

Rating 4/5

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