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91[Starsailor] sounds more confident than ever.
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Far from a perfect next step, Silence suffers from some slight songs. [23/30 Jan 2004, p.98]
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76If all goes well, people will forego the bad songs and concentrate on the really good ones, and Starsailor will get the message to go subtle and tight. [#8, p.102]
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75The 'Sailor can often sound a little too elfin even by the standards of the early '70s orchestral folk rock they love. [Jan 2004, p.100]
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60'Silence Is Easy' is non-challenging "pretty pretty" music for early-ageing types who might recoil at anything without an acoustic guitar and tomtoms.
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60Starsailor, then: not very exciting, but damned reliable. [Oct 2003, p.117]
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60The reliance on stately balladry can be yawnsome. But this is attractive listening, and it's hard not to be moved by its tenderness.
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There's little to object to on Silence Is Easy, but just as little to distinguish Starsailor's second effort from the many sound-alike albums sure to follow this year.
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49Defiantly sappy, Silence Is Easy survives mostly on Walsh's oddly graceful singing. Unfortunately, the music on the whole is prosaic, even boring at times.
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40Another like this and they should consider naming themselves after a different Tim Buckley album--Look At The Fool, for instance. [Oct 2003, p.107]
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40Falls into an identikit pattern of string-laden sentiment. [Oct 2003, p.120]
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40Problem is, 23-year-old frontman James Walsh remains the same sap. [Jan 2004, p.109]
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Sounds like Coldplay covering Barry Manilow.
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James Walsh does have a beautiful voice, but unfortunately, it's not enough to illuminate Starsailor from the shadow of British bands like Travis and Coldplay. [Feb 2004, p.90]
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40Silence is easy, and apparently being boring is, too.
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30This is a pompous, blandly histrionic album, faintly monumental in its drabness.
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JonB4fairly boring, fairly one-paced, fairly uninvolving, buy the song silence is easy on single or download but don't bother with the whole album..
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TimS1****