It's another full-blooded addition to the band's increasingly impressive discography Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Land Of Sleeper Raven's unstructured, experimental feel may be unsettling for some, but the project's only other downside is that eventually, it ends On the Boston staple's eighth album, Pile sound reinvigorated and more experimental than ever before Instead of the recycled beats the many of their EDM peers have been spinning their wheels too, no pun intended, over the last few decades, Orbital sound energized, fresh and as original as when they started In the end, Trustfall leans firmly on these powerful moments of personal growth, sidestepping P!nk's sometimes headstrong brattiness in favor of a confident defiance that speaks to triumph and maturity in a way that she hasn't done before He continues to tread the well-worn soft-rock/folk-pop path The word blunt can be directly interpreted as point-less and that cap somehow fits, for this set of pretty songs is indeed pretty pointless There’s certainly a market for anodyne, unthreatening, middle of the road pop, and Blunt appeals to that market very successfullyīang up-to-date and brain-rottingly formulaicīlunt is likely to slip further from view on the back of this. The majority of Moon Landing just comes across like a diluted mixture of James Morrison, Ben Howard and Ed Sheeran It's not the producer who needs changing it's Blunt's own approach, which is increasingly threadbare It’s just much less fun than his Twitter feed It's not so easy to leave your comfort zone, and the music stays within familiar soft-rock parametersĪll in all, there’s no denying Blunt can craft a decent melody, and ‘Moon Landing’ isn’t a bad album really. More mopey ballads and ad-ready pop songs. His worst enemy is still his own voice, an agitated whimper that makes even tender lines sound strangely like complaints The album should satisfy hardcore fans but may struggle to recruit fresh blood

Some sparks of invention penetrate the blanket of aural blandness.

There’s craft akin to The National or Bright Eyes in the thumping Satellites, unashamed pop on Postcards and Bonfire Heart, while Miss America is a mostly mawk-free take on Whitney Houston’s demiseĪn album that is, by many measures, Blunt's richest and best collection to date Sort by ADM rating Sort by most recent review

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