It's so damn repetitive, the banjos, the quiet building up to loud, the singer's awful voice. 'Sigh No More' is a stock example of all of this, and it just starts to grate so quickly. 'The Cave' does have a decent melody and does the quiet to loud trick better, but the lyrics are as earnest and just so fucking glib. I mean, does "And I'll find strength in pain, And I will change my ways, I'll know my name as it's called again" count as original lyrics. When I listen to music I'd actually like to occasionally hear lyrics I couldn't have written.
Parts of the album just about get away with the fact that they have decent melodies. But the fact that it's all so damn overblown and earnest just annoys me too much. Again, 'Roll Away Your Stone' isn't particularly offensive... until he starts singing and the banjos chime in. It continues, I've still only got through 5 tracks and even though they haven't all been awful, I can't help but hating this awful album.
'Thistle & Weeds' is the only song in the album that manages that atmosphere that it needs to make it's cries of 'I will hold on' not seem hollow. Yet that is followed up by the utterly anonymous 'Awake My Soul' then the laughable 'Dust Bowl Dance' which is the stupidest song I've ever heard on a record purporting to be folk.
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