TOYS FROM BALSA review, Raw Nerve Promotions
- November 13th, 2005

Jesus, this is awful. Overwrought country-tinged MOR.
He sounds a bit like Shane Macguire but the music’s more Bruce Springsteen. He’s competent musically (he writes and plays everything on this CD), his voice is passable but his limits are made clear. His melodies as well as his song structures offer no surprises and little to hold the imagination, even on the Irish tinged L’Humanitie, a decent backing ruined by a weak vocal.

Okay to be fair, I can’t stand this style of music to begin with and if he is successful at it I’m still hating it because it goes against everything my heart responds to. But there’s things like the rhythmic heavy breathing rasp that flows throughout Don’t Just Sit There which bears no obvious relation to the song or its subject - why’

I definitely can’t fault his playing though...Glyn I feel would be far better suited to creating the backings for another singer...being able to work around someone else’s melodies and words may well free his musical spirit. As it is, the further I progress into this CD I find myself pleasantly entertained by the music until he starts singing. Oh, and he needs to get a drummer...it pains me to hear a drum machine used so uninspired.

Reviewer: Michael Miller   Raw nerve Promotions