"Days Even Years" - Dan Arborise

Dan Arborise is a folk/acoustic artist and songsmith - "Days Even Years" is taken from his new album Of Tide And Trail. Unfortunately, it's an underwhelming offering from a bland and uninteresting musician. Dan's fingerpicking has undertones of José Gonzales and possibly Jack Johnson though manages to sound like a (male) cheap man's version of Tracy Chapman.

Although "Days Even Years" is inoffensive, but disappointingly unimpressive. The whole song seems dragged out, like a tribute-version of a Newton Faulker song. But stunning this is not, and neither is it quirky, outdoorsmanlike or folkish. It pushes none of the buttons that make acoustic music work - a mediocre, tame track with underdeveloped ambition. Ultimately, this is dentist's lounge music (even worse than doctor's lounge music because dental work is rarely urgent or important. Dentists are doctors who didn't make it).

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