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Din of Ecstasy
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On his second album,
abandons the atmospheric acoustic blues-rock of his debut for a hard-hitting, grungy guitar attack. Appropriately, the songs are all about losers and hard times -- it's a dark, bleak album, twisting through its songs with a grim determination. The problem is, it doesn't always work.
's lyrics are still rooted in the folk-blues storytelling tradition, while his music follows the rules of contemporary hard rock, complete with start-stop dynamics and thick layers of distortion. However, he can't write riffs that equal the best of
,
, and
, nor does he have melodies to rival theirs. His music works best a lyrical level and the musical approach on
obscures his lyrics, making the record a muddled affair. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine