It might sound like an odd thing to say, but Three Metre Day actually sound like they’re from Toronto: it’s no coincidence, then, that they are. ‘Coasting Notes’ is the modern root’s trio’s debut album, and it’s packed with sweet, lilting folk melodies and gently picked, delicately played songs.
Pump-organ player and singer Michelle Willis does possess a pleasant voice, which she uses to deliver lyrics which are by turns carefully crafted and a little bit strange (and occasionally a tad clunky: ‘You’re delightful, so spiteful / It’s my righteous indication that / You’re a peach, just out of reach’, for example, makes for an inauspicious start to an album), but too much of the materials much of a muchness, one pace and similar in sound, without any real standout tracks that are all that memorable.
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It may require more perseverance than I was willing to give it, but frankly, life’s too short.
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