( BC ) - Canada
Joined : December 28, 2007
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I very much enjoyed the album as a whole. I feel that this album is a complete entity rather than a collection of individual songs that have little connection to one another, as so many albums are like these days. The flow of one song to the next is well done.
I just went to the public library the other day, scooped up about 15 albums that I was interested in, all by major artists, and none tickled my fancy -- all lacklustre and boring, yet here I listen to Ben's Imaginary Band's album and, hey, it's really good and worth listening to many times over; a breath of fresh.
I couldn't choose a favourite song as I'm enjoying the whole album so much that to extract a song here and there as being more favourable than the others would merely detract from the entire effort.
Starts off as an album you'd think will go on and on with the same song one after the other, but turns out to be more varied. I did wonder when listening how much was original music and how much was not. I still wonder.
I think the cover art is great. Looks much better than most of the in-store albums from he big labels.