Title: Beneath waves
Artiste: Karl Blau
Genre: Folk/Indie
Track 1 (Love) Very relaxed and sort of campfire-style folk song; like the melody, the rhythm, like his voice and the backing vocals. The sax and piano combination is exquisite.
Track 2 (Love) This starts off a little more sparse but picks up nicely with harmonica and piano in the middle
Track 3 (Love) This is more kind of jangly rock. With added flute.
Track 4 (Love) Reminds me of Simon and Garfunkel
Track 5 (Love) And this is more Paul Simon, or maybe Joseph Arthur. Like the horns in this. Interesting instrumentation.
Track 6 (Hate) Not too fond of this one; don't like the tempo changes in it and it just doesn't really speak to me at all
Track 7 (Love) Much better. Kind of a folky acoustic feel to it, even the sitar (is it sitar? Sounds like it) is very relaxing, unlike in the last track where it was annoying. Nice Paul Simonesque vocal.
Track 8 (Love) I get a kind of fairground/carnival feel from this. Is that accordion? Ooh, nice!
Track 9 (Love) Great spoken vocal, lovely guitar. Love the organ too.
Track 10 (Love) It's a bit odd, but yeah I like it.
End result: A nice little album, quite relaxing mostly and certainly feels very organic and rooted in reality.
So, Love or Hate? That would be another
Love
Chances of a full review: 5/10