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I couldn’t help but draw similarities to The Postal Service, Fishcherspooner, and Radio Head (and oddly brokeback mountain on his first track You Always Do). While comparisons have been made to Justice, Yuill for me couldn’t be further from electro simply because the songs are so calming and are lacking the heavy bass line every good electro song needs. Yuills album is full of melodic acoustic guitar rifts and soothing vocals, really perfect for putting in your headphones and taking a bike ride through a park on a nice day. His album started out kinda slow with You Always Do and really started to pick up right away with the second track Left Handed Girl followed by one of my other favourites No Pins Allowed (am I the only person who hears a bit of crystal castles here?) Starting his album with such fast upbeat music was a real mistake in my opinion because it got me in the mood to listen to some fun music, but he quickly made a 180 with his next tracks and never really got my attention from then on in as they were all very slow with a lot more guitar, monotone vocals, and les electronic influence, but I must say when in the right mood the second half of the album can be exactly my tatste. Overall Yuill produced a strong album but I cant help but feel like its missing something, I\m not a music major just a music lover so I cant say exactly what this is, just that something was missing.

3/5 stars

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Left Handed Girl by James Yuill

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