Robin O’Brien: Eye and Storm

Robin O'Brien
Eye and Storm
Luxotone
2008-04-22

Robin O’Brien has an amiable and earnest voice. She plays acoustic guitar with nimble fingerings and writes engaging and sincere folk songs. There’s something warm and comforting about what she does, like a pair of flannel pajamas on cold night. Folk fans will enjoy the simple clarity and functionality of her art. O’Brien is adept at what she does. Her love songs and tunes about the earth resonate with heartfelt sentiment and emotions. She is a true exemplar of her art. But that’s also O’Brien’s biggest problem. Her music is somewhat generic and there is nothing distinctively beautiful, strange, or interesting about her work that will attract non-genre fans to her. Modern folk fans who enjoy, say Robin and Linda Williams, will like this disc. Others would do best to leave it alone.

RATING 5 / 10