Willie Herath
"Cohgie Never Landed" CD
self-released
Genre: singer / songwriter, pop
June 2008 |
Singer/songwriter music is certainly a mixed bag,
and there is a lot of mediocre material out there. Willie
Herath's music revels in a Jack Johnson acoustic vibe, which makes for inoffensive pop that
I imagine many people
really dig. However, an album like Cohgie Never Landed is too
lacking in edge and originality to really appeal to me on a deep
level. I will congratulate this album's production, as well as
Herath's serviceable songwriting and performing talents. Still,
despite the amount of emotion and energy that was expended on ballads
like "Something's Broken" and "Back & Forth", the songs themselves end
up sounding stale and contrived more often than not. From a pop music
perspective, the standout on this record is certainly the infectious
"Drive". "Come Home," meanwhile, has an effective melody but is sloppy
and moany in presentation. Sadly, the rest of the music on here varies
from mildly interesting to mildly sad. Cohgie Never Landed
can't be criticized for a lack of effort, but with so much great music
out there, I'm wondering who or what is spending time listening to
Willie Herath...
58%
Fun Fact: Who / what
is "Cohgie?"
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 12 tracks,
42:07,
distributed by
the band,
released 2007] |