Artur Dyjecinski - A Year And A Half Of Rain
Track List :1. A Song About Her
2. Those Pretty Things
3. Punch Drunk
4. Bottle In The Wall
5. Untitled #1
6. In Greed
7. Sitting Drinkin' Blues
8. Just A Day
9. Mmmm' Good
10. Soles Of Your Shoes
11. Things Will Work Out
From Poland by Canada, Artur Dyjecinski grew up on a diet of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, punk, and Billy Bragg in Vancouver, before the liquidation of London, where he recorded his first album.
Carried clear his influences on his sleeve, a year and a half of rain is a mixture of sometimes acoustic country rock effective and, at times, flowerchild banal cliché.
The opening piece, A Song About Her, is a happy foot-tapping, jolly serenade. A simple listing of a girl clear on certain points niftily picked guitar is perhaps not the most inventive idea for a song, but in the middle of the list of usual nonsense about his hair and how the girl smokes his cigarette, comments such as "broken hearts you leave in your path and serious conversation while others make you laugh," add an element of darkness that saves the song.
Those Pretty Things recalls Neil Young's best times less, too, the anti-materialism of the song is far from being a land of innovation fought for an acoustic guitar - toting young man with long hair, but it is done with a certain charm.
With vocal inflections reminiscent Devendra Banhart, Punch Drunk along the coast, extending the dynamic opening to the album.
The jollity ends with Untitled Number 1, the non-respect of what could be lifted by Elliot Smith, a former number, and melancholy drawl and strings could too drunk. Dyjecinski proves more effective than capable of melancholy on this issue. And In Greed is a brief extract from the bile which is a slap in the center of the album. This mixture of sadness, vitriol, and the country tinged indie momentarily Sparklehorse brings to mind.
The crowning achievement of A Year and a Half of Rain, Sitting Drinkin 'Blues, is also drenched in tradition of restraint and blues to country - like protagonist of the song is bourbon. Pedal steel, lazy wheezing, and a vocal twang affected combine to wonderful effect.
Unfortunately, though, if we made some tracks on the album, Dyjecinski tends to Jack Johnson, who took the upper hand over the second half of the album. Just A Day Mmm'Good are ineffective and beach stoner-fire numbers. Soles of your shoes is a good number of countries dance, but brief respite as closing the door Things Will Work Out is instantly forgotten pop surfer.
Dyjecinski invites comparisons with a lot of very good artists, but such comparisons just go to show that Dyjecinsk songs are not quite as good. This would not be so serious if it maintains the quality, but also in the albums 11 tracks, the song takes a nosedive feet and enthusiastic forgettable earcandy. Not without merit, and not without promise, a year and a half of rain is a bit of a damp squib.
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