(Lately Records)

Minitrue spoke – “ungood”.

Kent Eastwood is a Sydney singer-songwriter who writes easily marketable adult contemporary. The spacious production of shuffling drums and muted bass add a great emphasis to Eastwood’s forgettable piano playing and flatly generic voice. His roots-pop melodies are blandly basic and his song structures contemptuously predictable. Eastwood’s lyrics are the usual pastiche of vaguely uplifting meanderings with an obligatory undercurrent of melancholy. It’s kind of like Orwell’s 1984, where it’s always best to maintain a facade of quiet optimism – except in this case, The Party is whatever commercial radio station Eastwood has been taking far too literally. While I find it abhorrent to see such potential wasted, there are a few moments where you can hear this beautiful, evanescing, distorted electric guitar in the background. My advice, Mr Eastwood, is to take that thread and run with it – and sing in your natural voice, rather than Victory Tenor.

JAKEB SMITH

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