Little Songs (David Usher album)
| Little Songs | ||||
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| Studio album by David Usher | ||||
| Released | March 17, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Pop, rock | |||
| Length | 33:03 | |||
| Label | EMI Music Canada 7243 8 23115 2 2 | |||
| Producer | Paul Northfield, David Ka Lik Wong, Paul Wong | |||
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| AllMusic |   [1] |
Little Songs is the debut studio album by Canadian musician David Usher.[2] It was released on March 17, 1998 via EMI Music Canada label.[3] Three singles were also released off the record.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by David Usher.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Trickster" | 3:24 |
| 2. | "St. Lawrence River" | 4:13 |
| 3. | "Jesus Was My Girl" | 3:17 |
| 4. | "Unholy, Dirty and Beautiful" | 3:44 |
| 5. | "Forestfire" | 3:38 |
| 6. | "Baby Skin Tattoo" | 3:34 |
| 7. | "F Train" | 2:26 |
| 8. | "Million" | 2:51 |
| 9. | "Final Thoughts and the Last Day on Earth" | 3:00 |
| 10. | "Mood Song" | 2:56 |
Total length: |
33:03 | |
Review
Little Songs finds Dave in a pensive mood, ruminating about love gone bitter, his own Dark Side and being abandoned by God to the accompaniment of acoustic guitar, drum machine and the odd bit of cello. Vocally, Usher shows a lot more restraint than he's known for with Moist—no histrionics!—and the songs, surprisingly, don't sound so calculated for radio play. Unfortunately, they still sound calculated—only now the plan is to present Usher as a serious artiste, with maudlin lyrics and moody arrangements and a quiet feel to let us know that Dave's Being Serious Now. Most of the songs follow the same formula of quiet, repetitive riffs and quietly intense singing building a controlled crescendo of heartbreak and disappointment. The lack of melodic inventiveness keeps any one song from sticking out, so the songs are just not all that memorable...Still, it's not a bad album. It didn't send me lunging for the SKIP button like others have, but neither was I interested in hitting the REPEAT button...
—Drop-D Magazine[4]
References
- ↑ Cardiff, Erin. "Little Songs - David Usher". AllMusic.com. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
- ↑ "David Usher – Little Songs". discogs.com. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
- ↑ "David Usher – Little Songs". amazon.ca. Retrieved 2015-08-14.
- ↑ O'Donahue, Michael. "Little Songs". dropd.com. Retrieved 2015-08-14.
External links
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