Little Songs (David Usher album)

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Little Songs
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Studio album by David Usher
Released March 17, 1998
Genre Pop, rock
Length 33:03
Label EMI Music Canada 7243 8 23115 2 2
Producer Paul Northfield, David Ka Lik Wong, Paul Wong
David Usher chronology
Little Songs
(1998)		 Morning Orbit
(2001)Morning Orbit2001
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars[1]

Little Songs is the debut studio album by Canadian musician David Usher.[2] It was released on March 17, 1998 via EMI Music Canada label.[3] Three singles were also released off the record.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by David Usher. 

No. Title Length
1. "Trickster"   3:24
2. "St. Lawrence River"   4:13
3. "Jesus Was My Girl"   3:17
4. "Unholy, Dirty and Beautiful"   3:44
5. "Forestfire"   3:38
6. "Baby Skin Tattoo"   3:34
7. "F Train"   2:26
8. "Million"   2:51
9. "Final Thoughts and the Last Day on Earth"   3:00
10. "Mood Song"   2:56
Total length:
 33:03

Review

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Little Songs finds Dave in a pensive mood, ruminating about love gone bitter, his own Dark Side and being abandoned by God to the accompaniment of acoustic guitar, drum machine and the odd bit of cello. Vocally, Usher shows a lot more restraint than he's known for with Moist—no histrionics!—and the songs, surprisingly, don't sound so calculated for radio play. Unfortunately, they still sound calculated—only now the plan is to present Usher as a serious artiste, with maudlin lyrics and moody arrangements and a quiet feel to let us know that Dave's Being Serious Now. Most of the songs follow the same formula of quiet, repetitive riffs and quietly intense singing building a controlled crescendo of heartbreak and disappointment. The lack of melodic inventiveness keeps any one song from sticking out, so the songs are just not all that memorable...Still, it's not a bad album. It didn't send me lunging for the SKIP button like others have, but neither was I interested in hitting the REPEAT button...

—Drop-D Magazine[4]

References

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