Tom Baxter - Skybound
Track List :1. A Night Like This
2. Skybound
3. Better
4. Tell Her Today
5. Miracle
6. The Last Shot
7. Tragic
8. Half A Man
9. Icarus Wings
10. Light Me Up
It's been three years since we heard something Tom Baxter. His release 2004 Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a favorite Radio Two, but since then, not a sausage. Here come Skybound an autobiographical album, which shows her angelic, voice dream with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.
A woody guitar, bass and blues, jazz, with brands Baxter orchestral accompaniment, we introduced Skybound with A Night Like This. His voice is rich, natural and soul, with his high notes stretched oozing passion.
His great song is highlighted in all its glory throughout the album, are no longer the title song. His classical Spanish guitar picking sits down gently with a light piano, brought to life with the beautiful strings.
Better understanding Other highlights a simple love song. Her heart-wrenching lyrics and melody tear-jerking are again set aside other gooey love songs with the magic of strings. It's always the string section that gives Baxter songs a little something extra. The arrangements are nothing unusual, but production is complete and edifying, and there is not a synthesizer in sight.
The theme Flamenco continues to Tell Her Today, a few strange, which seems a step in the wrong direction. They are great, but the end is a bit cliché - if I may say so, too stereotypical Spanish. He digresses from an album of beautiful love songs simple and tries a little too hard to do something different. A better work is done on the darker Icarus Wings, even if it is a bit like the flamenco version of Halloween.
No woman could not fail to go to their knees weak with Baxter passionate take on new and old love and the wonders of that special someone, especially with songs like Miracle, tragic and Half A Man, despite the Beatles I Want You rip-off ending. The voice effortlessly, as a One Year Colin Blunstone or a Grace-era Jeff Buckley, are mesmerising.
So Skybound is beautiful, moving and very lovey-dovey, but it does run the risk of being more of an album of your mom would listen that the last, providing a source of inspiration and an original British Singer / songwriter.
On my own, I could sit in the dark and happily float away, but I would be embarrassed to play it at an evening. It's a bit too much. His melodies are a little too obvious, his words a bit too soppy, and it lacks the freshness of the plume and stone. Baxter is always beautiful voice, but it will not draw many young people connected with it.
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