DEMON

Moody melancholy, with some fun folk elements. My version of the CD has just four tracks; the Spotify version shows a total of 8 shorter tracks, with the longer songs being broken into multiple parts. Either way, total time is under 46 minutes, so it's a short album. The music itself, despite the wide range of instruments and the variety of genre influences, carries with it a sense of sameness. Most of this is due to the restrained vocals, which contribute to the mood but which don't do much more. I don't dislike the vocals, but they tend to get a bit boring as the album progresses. Comparisons to Radiohead are accurate.

The strongest part of the album is the first track, "I've Been Walking" (Part 1). The music and vocals are less restrained here, more interesting, more variation, more mix of hard and soft. It's a very good song, with some fantastic piano and and violin sections, and the vocals are much more crisp than on the rest of the album. Had the rest of the album been of similar quality, it would have earned four stars. As it is, though, a very solid three.