Shwekey indeed put out a musicaly great album, but I got bored right away, as if I was listening to one long song with 25 different parts. That's my feeling.
Ok, so I hadn't listened to Shwekey's album (I'm not a fan), but after your comments I went and listened to the whole thing. I disagree entirely. While each song had things which reminded me of other songs by other performers, I did not get the feeling that the album as a whole was different versions of the same song.
Yehuda57: interesting. But I feel that even if all the songs are the same style, if they're composed by different people than there's automaticaly more dimension to it. And I beleive that all recent albums that have more than a few songs composed by one composer have not stayed around long. (I don't want to write examples on a public forum.)
You mean like MBC, Eli Gerstner's bajillion projects, 8th day, or every secular band that has ever existed? How about the dozens of Jewish music albums which were entirely Yossi Green compositions? I can't rattle them off to you now, but I remember albums often had the name of the singer and the composer on the cover. You might not like the repetition, but you can't argue their success.
All I'm saying is to try this: Before you read the liner notes, listen to the music. A bunch of times. When you go in to the album after reading the names, you'll hear what you are expecting to hear.
Besides, 5 out of 14 songs is just over a third. So this album is at least three dimensional
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