Album Review

Grant -Lee Phillips – Soft Asylum

• 20th May 2008

The gravelly voice and plodding drums, mixed with the gentle stum of a guitar makes this song very downbeat and dark. Full of melancholy and a good little tune, this personal song will have an effect on people, in that they’ll buy it and want to cry, but that’s just the way Grant Lee-Phillips rolls.

His single relates to stories of an ambiguous character, it could be you, it could be me, and it could be your neighbour. This single is very troubadour, rustic and ambient, but I like it, even if it is a bit mellow.