There my Dear | Loppylugs

Submitted by Neil Hornsey on 14 February 2013 - 10:43pm

Cover:

Artist:

Dimmer

album-ID:

a_22

Nationality:

New Zealand

Year:

2 006

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Don’t Even See Me*Going Nowhere*Under The Illusion*You’re Only Leaving Hurt*Scrapbook*One Breath At A Time*I Won't Let You Break My Heart Again*Mine*What’s A Few Tears To The Ocean?

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_10

Now-num:

Short-title:

thereMyDear

nominator-ID:

u_13

Meeting-date:

Wednesday, 2 April 2008

MusicBrainz-URL:

1d2589ba-9679-3baa-9c32-9a1f6b0ea64d

Discogs-URL:

Dimmer-There-My-Dear/master/421154

Allmusic-URL:

there-my-dear-mw0001897440

code

Some global variables used across pages

code

this is code for each album page, to be hidden

review-form data

guest-list data

108

109

117

reviewers-IDs data

-13-

-1-

-14-

-3-

78

reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

1-2-3-4

For me Shayne Carter is a rock god, an all time legend. Dimmer as a concept has come as a slight anticlimax, but that's not hard having given as many hours as I have to his previous works. However this album is essentially a work of beauty - warm, subtle, intelligent - but I find it tends to fade after the powerful Scrapbook song.
68

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Needs a bit of polish

4-5-9

7-8

By and large he seems to have gone for a contemplative, sensitive, ethereal sort of sound on these songs and they haven't quite worked convincingly, for me. The songwriting is fairly strong and the ideas do start to come through after a number of plays, the problem for me is a lack of imagination in the arrangements, playing and production. There's a sort of drab muddiness to what you hear that stops it ever affecting you emotionally like it could do and like I think it was intended to. Scrapbook is one that really cuts through what is a bit of a dowdy feeling by this point in the album. Even this one could have done with a bit more work to make it the great song it almost is. I think it's a shame the sound isn't quite there as Mr Dimmer seemed to have done the hard songwriting work, only to muck it all up in the delivery.
68

reviewed by

Richard Norbury
35

reviewed by

Jon Taylor

An also ran.

A respectable effort from another of Neil's faves, but given that there's so much good music in the world, why would anyone go out and buy this. Every aspect of it is done better by others.