Under A Paper Moon's opening song tells us most of what we need to know about COLORBLIND. It's called "anti love song" and it strums a warm-sounding acoustic, adds some comfortable electric guitar notes, a couple of carefully chosen piano chords, a violin line, and a soft voice with a lot of breathing. The acoustic guitar takes a solo and the tempo takes its time.
The ten other tracks do similar things. The occasional distortion thrown across the vocal part makes me consider a comparison with MARK LINKOUS. But no one who loved SPRAKLEHORSE could really take COLORBLIND to their hearts.
This is very soft music, with no concession to anything recognisably connected with contemporary creativity. Song structures are effortless, but there are no hooks or phrases that linger. It's mood music for people who crave milk chocolate, warm fluffy slippers and nothing that might startle the cat or disturb their dreams.
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As entertainers Al and Sam Mudry have the harmonies and gentleness to coax an audience into contentment. But as a CD sent across Europe from Switzerland for appraisal, this collection of their songs doesn't really match up to the sorts of music reported by the artists themselves as influential. Their sound is more David Grey and James Blunt than Lambchop or Tom Waits. More Cliff Richard than Tim Buckley. The differences might be small. measured form afar. But from where I sit, the gulf is too wide to cross. Sweet is fine - but after so much treacle, this reviewer's palette gets clogged.
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