Before the title puts visions of
Fleetwood Mac
or
the Eagles
in potential listeners heads, think instead of the starkness of
Neil Young
's
Tonight's the Night
, possibly mixed with a little of the home-recording
lo-fi
of
Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska
.
Lay Your Head on the Soft Rock
is a solo recording by
Chris Wicky
of Switzerland's
emo
-punks
Favez
, much more along the lines of the confessional, largely acoustic material on their first two albums than their noisier,
rock
-oriented later work. If anything, however, it's even more stripped down than
's quiet takes on
Dashboard Confessional
-style
, with many songs featuring just
Wicky
and his guitar, with a hint of distant electric organ the only musical coloration. Luckily, these are likely the strongest songs of
's career, with an emotional directness that's balanced by the simple,
folk
-like strength of his melodies. ~ Stewart Mason