From the faint guitar that leads the way, through Dawson's half-hearted, pieced together lyrics, the album looks like a rough demo, a sketchbook of drawings for future albums. What we have here is a collection of songs that weren't too well thought out and were thrown together in an attempt to have a solo album. Had Dawson demo'd these and worked on them like Green and Dawson would have done on a Moldy Peaches record, the songs may have been given a better chance. Sent to fend for themselves, however, they don't make the grade, their basic structure and chord progressions, the light strumming and elementary lyrics just too rudimentary for such a stripped down singer-songwriter offering. I'll give it a C.

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[Issue Fifty-Six // January 2003]