Album: Shane Nicholson “Faith & Science”

If you were a boy singer, would you be insulted if I told you your album was super super pretty? I mean it in a good way!

I saw Nicholson open for Kasey Chambers last year(?or the year before?) and really liked him. He’s often compared to Crowded House/Neil Finn. I really didn’t hear the similarities that much on the previous album, but on this one there are indeed a few songs that I have to stop and think “Wait, who am I listening to?”

If you need music to ROCK you, this might be too soft for you. But if you generally don’t like the quiet boys, it’s more upbeat than that (i.e., not as melancholy as, say, Damien Rice).

Fave songs: “All the Time in the World,” “Always Be on Your Side,” “Watch Her Go” and “Exit Wounds.”