CD Reviews
Adrian Glynn
Bruise(Light Organ Records)
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It is sometimes too easy to consign many of the modern folk troubadours under the critical umbrella of dissatisfaction. Not Adrian Glynn. This doggedly innovative singer/songwriter has put together and album of special charm and stubborn beauty. How do we know this? Because it takes at least a half dozen solid sessions in the player before your ears can even really crack his rich depths of meaning and artistically oddball arrangements. Maybe it’s not odd after all. Perhaps it’s his uncanny ability to make "folk" music that stretches the boundaries of the staid form into something more interesting than it has been of late. Whether he’s alone at the piano singing a quiet, dirge-like lamentation or smoldering a slow dark chamber-folk fuse this album definitely gets your attention. And, like its title, the shapes and colors change as time passes making it an album that will loiter in your ears — and your heart.
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September 9, 2011 at 2:30 AM
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Overly vain and simplistic. Half dozen solid sessions? It took me 3 songs to realize this was a coaster
September 8, 2011 at 8:53 PM
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I'm listening to Bruise for the fourth time, what a mesmerizing production, both vocally and musically. Put it on in a quiet darkened room, have a glass of wine or whatever your habit is, and get carried away. Fantastic
September 8, 2011 at 8:14 PM
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Listening to this CD for the third time, it's mesmerizing, nuances in music and words keep coming up, hope
Adrian Glynn has a lot of success with BRUISE