Amos Lee - Supply And Demand

Genre rock Publisher Blue Note Records External Links Official Amos Lee Website Official Blue Note Records Website

My wish for 2007, then: please, no more of these. If I told you that Amos Lee was discovered by Norah Jones and that one of his earlier songs was used for the finale of Grey's Anatomy, I wouldn't have to explain any further, would I?

For those of you who do require a bit more information, then think 'it's poppy! But soulful and worthy!' A million coffee tables scream out in pain and terror. Dinner parties across the land brace themselves for another CD to be added to the changer.

Perhaps I can just quote the chorus from the first single, "Shout Out Loud": "I wanna shout out/Shout out loud/Why don't you walk/Just come on out/We can, Tear it all down, yeah". Now imagine that sort of homespun wisdom span out to eleven songs. IMAGINE.

Now, fine, it's competent, not a foot put wrong, a good mixture of uptempo and contemplative tracks, but still, after forty minutes, Supply and Demand doesn't feel like it has supplied anything of worth, and demand for this sort of thing must surely be saturated by now. Ho ho. As aural wallpaper, it is harmless, but as a record, it's sorely lacking.