Search - Black Swans :: Who Will Walk in the Darkness With You

70s sound may have found a modern soul

B. Hanley | Dublin, Ireland | 12/02/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"There is surprisingly a lot more going on here than downer derivative music. Vocally, instrumentally and lyrically I found it very rich. There were very few stereotypical elements of modern versions of what's called Americana or folk. Though a couple songs come off flat, the rest is genuinely odd in a way like Love or some other tuneful 70s geniuses were, Leonard Cohen also comes to mind.



Steve Hoffman mastered it, which explains the superb, modern sound. But, the tonal and aural shifts seem to run close to the songwriting. When the darker side of the Taxi Driver decade gets its say, Jerry DeCicca may be a star.



Not enough rocking for the Neil Young crowd, but there is a careful groove to some of the songs. Something reggaesque waiting to escape perhaps."