Benjamin Taylor – She’s Gone [Single]

Iris Records

April 27, 2009, 08:01 PM

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Benjamin Taylor’s ability to blur the line between cheesy generic singer-songwriter material and credible musicianship coupled with his ability to pen a genuinely well written pop song is remarkable. In reference to the said ‘cheesy’ aspect, the artwork of his latest release ‘She’s Gone’ shows him in a deep pensive pose as the sun sets over an amber forest and glistening lake in a typically autumnal scene [see right]. Hmmm, nice.

However, as I said, Ben manages to carry off both of these sides of the modern singer songwriter rather well and one would be excused for wanting to compare his image and his music to fellow American ‘Jack Johnson’ and the popular Johnson tribute act ‘Jason Mraz’, in that they all have a considerably neutral-yet-likeable side to their music and all possess melodic and breathy voices (although Johnson is the king of breathy voices – you’d think that his father was a pan-pipe and his mother a didgeridoo!)

‘She’s Gone’ is an albeit brief, but subtle track that seems to realise that overdoing things could ruin the song so is therefore simple with very few layers. This is one of the rare cases where this benefits the track because as tempting and as easy as it would be to add more to ‘She’s Gone’, Benjamin Taylor resists and is rewarded with highly likeable end results. Not necessarily an interesting listen, but well written enough to draw the listener in.

Wow I got through that whole review without mentioning his famous parents James Taylor and Carly Simon....oops.

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