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04 April 2004
Morgan Taylor, Dream in Green (Fisk)
Maybe it's the times, maybe it's living in New York, maybe it's because the Strokes sell, but Taylor has more casual swagger and a bigger appetite for jaded debauchery and darkness (Check out "A Fool's Mouth" or wonder if he does or doesn't push her down the stairs in "A Lemon") than your average singer-songwriter. Which is better than self-pity. I guess. And he's more musically eclectic than most acoustic strummers, even those with a surrealist bent. But he still gets off his best moment during the topically traditional and lyrically minimal love lament of"Raincoat": jangly, catchy, and emotional but not mushy. If tradition ain't broke, why fix it?
— Peter Su
.: posted by Editor 9:53 AM
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