Feted by none other than Paul McCartney and sounding like a young Rod Stewart after a good gargle, Jon Allen follows up his attention-g rabbing Land Rover advert soundtrack with an accomplished own-label debut album. A one-time student of the Macca-backed Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Allen's folk/pop ballad Going Home saturated commercial breaks last year but...(展开全部) Feted by none other than Paul McCartney and sounding like a young Rod Stewart after a good gargle, Jon Allen follows up his attention-g rabbing Land Rover advert soundtrack with an accomplished own-label debut album. A one-time student of the Macca-backed Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, Allen's folk/pop ballad Going Home saturated commercial breaks last year but is, curiously enough, the weakest song on Dead Man's Suit - a cliché-ridden sub-James Blunt affair about endlessly winding roads and ever-changing views always leading back to the object of affection. Dreary, in a word. Happily, the rest is a clear cut above and the opening title track, with its ghostly Hammond accompaniment coming crisply to life, is a marker of good things to come. Allen's crooned emery-board voice makes much of the Handbags and Gladrags-like In Your Light while Down by the River unapologetically draws its inspiration from late-period Faces. The songs are precisely crafted but Allen's delivery always seems to call to mind another voice. So the beautifully wistful Sleeping Soul is Wild Wood-era Paul Weller, Take Me to Heart summons up James Taylor in self-reflective mood, Young Man's Blues smacks of Rod Argent, Bad Penny sounds like a David Gray off-cut and Friends concludes things with a gentle nod towards Joe Cocker. And yet Dead Man's Suit remains recognisably Allen's and the sheer simplicity with which it is delivered - erring always on the pleasingly understated - proves a winningly intimate, if occasionally somewhat fey, formula. --Michael Quinn
0 有用 Obfuscation 2009-04-18 12:19:31
good
0 有用 解夏罂粟 2009-08-20 17:37:08
in your light
0 有用 安蓝·怪伯爵𓆝𓆟𓆜 2009-03-25 21:21:30
In Your Light
0 有用 赏味期限kai 2009-05-15 13:25:24
en
0 有用 a kino 2011-10-03 00:11:50
非常有沧劲的美国民谣
0 有用 鱼更 2009-06-10 06:39:51
4.5..有几首有Bob dylan的味道。
0 有用 解夏罂粟 2009-08-20 17:37:08
in your light
0 有用 a kino 2011-10-03 00:11:50
非常有沧劲的美国民谣
0 有用 赏味期限kai 2009-05-15 13:25:24
en
0 有用 猫 2009-06-11 10:46:26
我喜欢的声音,我喜欢的风格。