The Delaney
is a singer/songwriter/poet in London. He is not my thing.
The singing
is pretty flat, and occasionally out of tune. If often goes off-tempo, similar
to Cake and I hate that about Cake. At one point I thought maybe this would
work for fans of Joe Cocker, but I did some listening to Cocker to verify that
and Joe is more fun.
I thought
perhaps it was unfair to critique him as a performer if he is more of a
songwriter, but he seems to perform on a regular basis. If the performance is
not doing the lyrics justice, that could be an issue, but he has lyrics posted
on his web site so they can be examined separately.
Those
didn't really appeal to me either. I feel like they are trying to be witty
social commentary without actually being that witty, and yet maybe if I were
also in London some of it would have more resonance.
All of this
combined makes it feel very self-indulgent. I can't rule out that I am missing
something, but I cannot recommend. He does play guitar well.
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