TLDR
Chris Stapleton, Amos Lee, Cold Little Heart from Big Little Lies
I continue to be semi-bored, feeling the way they sing in all of their songs is pretty similar. It feels like they over sing or over-lean on the singing and don’t have as much variety in the songs as I want for an album.
I wonder if I’m wanting him to sing in his head voice or mixed and oscillate between types of voice or sing in different keys or different notes. I wonder also how much the variety is based on harmonies from other singers, or other background instruments.
Hot Takes
Let me let you down — I like that they do a false start at the beginning, singing comes in hot
Carry you — feels appropriate for the times, ‘too heavy to carry alone’
Man of the Universe — not a common theme, humanist/globalist not just a restless wanderer, I like the ‘never needed to count up pennys and quarters’
Hold me — i like the clapping and stomping
Paint my heart — long instrumental opening which is cool and different for them, i also like the wailing — 6min is a long song
rain — nice opening line
so caught up — i like this, this reminds me of that show with the group of friends with laura dern
san francisco — i like that this is less chesty, i wonder what chris stapleton does so he doesn’t oversing or mix it up. Best song so far
Sunshine baby — different with the whistling, old timey “sweet pea, apple of my eye” what is that song
Sun come ease me in — I like the harmonies, I wonder if they had background vocals from women that would sound better across most of these songs, this sounds a little more like classic rock from 70s, this kinda reminds of me of the beatles or something I can’t quite put my finger on
that bird — opening guitar sounds SO familiar — like van morrison or something that vintage, another great example of not over singing, like this one
