WINDOW DRESSING

After discovering Tiles with their excellent album "Presents of Mind", I decided to give this one a try... and was disappointed with it. The only track that grabbed me was title track/album opener Window Dressing. Nice lyrics, feel, execution and originality here. But none of the other tracks came close to please me. I find it is an uninspired album, incohesive and ungripping. A few songs have their somewhat good moments, but even within themselves the songs are uneven. The musicianship is not in question, as they already proved with their previous albums that they are indeed competent, it is the songwriting that is weak here. Weak enough for me to go to the nearest used cd store and use it to buy something else.

A very unmemorable album from a promising band. Let's hope they readjust for the next album.