Tuesday 1 October 2019

David McWillams - Lord Offaly


Rating: 4/5

Review:
Still a very good album

This remains a very good album. I can’t quite regard it as a classic as some other reviewers have done, but it’s full of very nice songs, well sung and well produced.

There is some truly lovely stuff here in places – the instrumental Spanish Hope is a prime example – and all the songs have a very nice sound to them. McWillams had quite a distinctive style, especially in his use of minor chords, and that comes through here, giving the whole album a slightly mystical, melancholy air but it’s never depressing or turgid. Somewhere between folk and early-70s pop, it’s an album which has lasted much better than many from that era and I can recommend it warmly.

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