ARTIST: Wallis Bird
TITLE: Spoons
LABEL: Island
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 186kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 52m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-10-19
RIP DATE: 2007-10-31
Track List
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1. Counting To Sleep 4:19
2. 6 ft 8 4:54
3. Slow Down 4:36
4. The Circle 4:14
5. Blossoms In The Street 3:43
6. You Are Mine 4:20
7. Moodsets 4:13
8. Country Bumpkin 3:06
9. Just Keep Going 5:44
10. All For You 5:23
11. Bring Me Wine 7:36
Release Notes:
Irish folk singer clambers into De Lorean, hits 88mph and goes back to 1996...
There was a time when the likes of Ani DiFranco and Tori Amos were considered
the be-all and end-all when it came to singer-songwriters. However, letÆs not
forget that during the same era, Ross from Friends was considered a pin-up,
wedges were still just about acceptable and everyone liked Menswe@r and the
Chris Evans breakfast show. Times, fortunately, have changed. For everyone
except Wallis Bird, it seems. Spoons is a collection of songs which owes so much
to Tori AmosÆs old work, itÆs impossible to view it as anything original; weÆre
left judging it on its scant merits alone. Opening with a piano and guitar riff
so derivative (on Counting To Sleep) that youÆd be forgiven for thinking youÆve
put AmosÆs Boys For Pele in the CD player by mistake, what follows is almost
like a checklist: feisty vocal with screams and yodels (Blossoms In The Street û
tick), heartfelt pleas for understanding and originality (6 ft 8, Country
Bumpkin û tick) and proto-comical whimsy (every damn song on the album û tick).
This is one Spoon-ful youÆll find hard to swallow.