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Thought provoking words about the struggles of life, over a sparse intimate soundtrack

The music is quite sparse on most of the songs and that makes the album sound a bit one dimensional at times. The use of other singers on quite a number of songs to support Moreno’s voice, which really does sound like a mix of Cohen and Diamond, suggests that he and his producers understand that they need to throw a bit of light and shade on to the singing to put the emphasis on the lyrics. Some more arrangements like ‘Feel Like Dancing’ or the organ led ‘When The City Wakes Up’ would have reflected his poetry more effectively.

A song that creeps up on you after a few plays is ‘All That We Have.’ “This all that we have, won’t you treat it baby like we never gonna part. These cobwebs are like mould inside since the day you said you’d give it all away for some plays on Spotify.” The subtleties of the words are highlighted by the trumpet solo that sits in the background of the song like someone sounding the retreat on a battlefield. A few more touches like that would have turned this from a good into a great album.


Tracks:
1 Solitude
2 Painter, Painter
3 Feel Like Dancing
4 Sellotape My Heart
5 Everyday News
6The Dreams of The Poor
7 Dance On In An Empty field
8 All That We Have
9 When The City Wakes Up
10 The Year Of The Rat

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