Each of the songs on the album have a rambling quality that prevents them from forming cohesive wholes. These are not pop songs traditionally crafted and melodically there is little that unites each composition. I find myself drifting off listening to this, not from relaxation but boredom. The songs don't strike me as particularly insightful nor beautiful. the pottery barn comment seems apt, but even here the songs lack the melodic robustness of norah jones style crooning.… Expand

Could be his best work yet outside of S&C, including what he did with the Coctails

Prewitt is the type to win critic's praise: always tasteful, always hip. There is nothing offensive here, nor anything all that exciting. Indie blandness mitigated somewhat by great arrangements and textures. What critics consistently fail to note is that great arrangements do not make great songs.

zebob h, your criterion for judging music includes offensiveness? Would a little gang violence or misogyny improve your opinion? Is being and tasteful and hip now a supposed to be a detraction? Anyway, this is a great cd. My only complaints are the usage of cliched country slide guitar and generally bland arrangements on the later half of the album. If it could have lived up to the promise of the first track I would have given it a ten. If you've never heard of Prewitt then you are better off with his earlier cds: Three, or White Sky.… Collapse

I would not be surprised to hear this on a Pottery Barn compilation, or playing in the store. That's what people mean by inoffensive. And yes, that it is. Tasteful and inoffensive. Which do not a classic album make. It's a good easy listening CD for the jilted generation, and doesn't bother to transcend the genre.

I don't think the difference between challenging and offensive is given much due by these reviewers. Maybe what they are looking for is the grandoise and pompous sentiment that has seemed to become a substitute for taste, skill, and substance. But, I suppose that recognizing that is too much to ask from people whose knee-jerk sensibilities condition them to respond to what is genuinely honest and challenging listen condemnations for being popular with the critics or, god forbid, listenable. It's sad that beautiful arrangements and heartfelt lyrics are written off by catchwords like "jilted generaltion" and such urbane comments about it being "corporate friendly music," and really, if you listen to the cd you'd know that no one would ever pick this for their companies compilation; melancholy doesn't move merchandise. So don't listen to the snobs that would rather over simplify than make a real assessment. After all, "cynicism is boring."… Expand