Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

A good album changes your mood to fit its own tone. Reaffirming and uplifting, pacifying and soothing, or emo and suicidal; the music should exert its power - in a subtle way if not using a direct assault between the ears. The problem with this jazz-lite/folk release from New York singer-songwriter Heather Greene is that the mind-meld only works when I am already feeling pretty mellow, and succeeds (if you can call it success) simply as undemanding background music to which little attention need be paid. That, however, is not how I care to (hardly) listen to music. Unfortunately, [...]