Bryter Layter

Where to start? Awful. Dreadful voice. Dreadful songs. I will never listen to this again.

Did not listen

gejowe 1/5

Started out ok. I like the piano music. I don't like the tone of his voice. I had to keep skipping the songs. Bryter Layter song did not have lyrics - this one was better. lol. FLY was ok. The music just doesn't match the voice.

ugh, no thank you!

Very Easy Listening. Very laid back...

Meh

For my second attempt following jazz fusion I didn’t think it could go worse but it did. Uninspiring vocals and lyrics.

Nah, boring

Shite

Well that was painfully wishy-washy and pointless.

Not my thing.

Made me miss Autobahn

ugg. didn't enjoy very much boring

Listened to the top song from this album. Didn’t like. Sounds like he doesn’t trust himself singing.

Another miss.

Didn't mind this but not much else to say about it. Was jollier than expected but can't imagine I would choose to listen to it again. I find singer-songwriters generally very self-indulgent and this too seems to fit that mold.

JT wanna be.

Melancholie in langweiligstem 70er Folk Gewand

Really enjoyed the introduction track and the instrumentals, but personally not a fan of their voice. It comes off as a bit shrill to me.

This album desperately wants me to feel something but I don’t. I made the mistake of reading Alex’s review on Pink Floyd and now don’t feel qualified to write anything. This is basically elevator music. 1970s Bon Iver (feat Dave Matthews) Is this this sort of album in which knowing something about the songwriter would change my perspective on it? Not that it matters, I literally don't have the capacity to care about any more strangers.

Nice arrangements but artist cannot sing and guitar is slightly out of tune.

With Lucille, Little Richard screams rock into existence, writhing with danger, the unknown, the magic. Folk rock takes rock and strips it, scrapping the danger, the unknown, the magic, leaving only the instruments and none of the spirit. What's the point of folk rock? Why are there saxophones? I don't get it. For the record, Bryter Layter is not a good name. It's not clever.

This is absolutely not an album you need to hear before you die. I'm shocked at the quality of these 1001 albums so far. So much tedious acoustic drivel. Pop stars pretending to be men of the earth. Neil Young, I'm looking at you. Anyway, this is more of that nostalgia for a time before penicillin

It was rlly boring, not my style of music and I don’t think he has a great singing voice

My first experience with the music of Nick Drake. Mello acoustic guitars with orchestral accompaniment and equally mello vocals combine to create a mediocre sound. Sometimes-thoughful lyrics were not enough to imbue value. I think this ablum belongs to a genre that I've missed or avoided, as I cannot name it.

Nick drake is ok

Rubbish

Yawn. I’m already tired this morning and this almost put me to sleep.

Singer sings the same song while playing an acoustic guitar over different variations of elevator music behind him. *saves review to notes for every other singer-songwriter album in this exercise*

Tostón(PSP)

not my bag

Good guitar and pianos. Not my cup of tea though

No.

Herkkää. Jazzahtavaa.

no preconceived notions whatsoever. sounds like john prine if you take away his world weariness, but also if john prine made me sleep. soooo boring. the words are sophomoric, which is undnerstandabe if you know that he was 22 when this came out. around a fourth is instrumental so i guess it's good that the arrangements are clean. i tried really hard to like it, but it just bores me so. no tracks stand out, all just seem to bleed into the next one.

Sometimes risk aversion can bite you on the ass. By stripping away anything offensive to his delicacy--like, er, strong beats or hooks--Drake’s gentle rhythms, which hold up from start to finish, take on an insistent prettiness. Throw in his bizarrely mannered vocals and nursery rhyme lyrics (not necessarily a bad thing) and it’s well-conceived as a whole. Unfortunately, I find insistent prettiness annoying. I wanted the strings and horns in ‘At the Chime of a City Clock’ to stop being so sheepish, and to tell John Cale that his harpsichord on ‘Fly’ was like too much exposition in a costume drama. Lots of scene-setting. Little action.

Chato demais!

This is not for me.

Terrible

Not a fan

I didn't feel like this was anything special.

Really sad backstory did not make for a very interesting album. It was just a little bit whatever.

fantastic discovery thanks Nick Drake