As those few of you that are somewhat regualar readers of my blog may or may not remember I did a quick review of the Avalanche album by the same artist a while back.
So a few weeks ago I came across the ‘Michigan’ album – it being the other album that has been produced in the ’50 States’ idea that Stevens has come out with. Having not realy listened to it yet I decided that I might as well give it a shot now.
And it’s a dissappointment.
The album has the unfortunate quality of ‘musak’, it’s not realy that strong and is the sort of music that you forget your listening to. There are no real strong ‘songs’ on this album with most of it realy being instrumental. Even the vocals are rather subdued with the clever vocal tricks of ‘Illinois’ and ‘The Avalanche’ being largely missing.
Even so, there are glimpses of the style of those albums, but only in the way that the whole album resemles the ‘filler’ tracks from those albums.
If your already a fan this might interest you as a glimpse into the evolution of the artist, but if your looking for something to start with go to ‘Illinois’.
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