Artist:
Album: The Ballad of Paper Ships
Grade: C
Genre: Indie, Folk Rock, Ambient
RIYL: Shannon Wright, Cat Power, Jeff Buckley
Good Tracks: 6, 7
The Skinny: Chen combines hauntingly gentle finger picking guitar with a singing voice that alternates between wail and whisper. While her songs are filled with intricate lyricism, the entire album is comprised of lengthy ballads. Her subject matter focuses solely on heart break, bleakness and maritime clichés. Chen offers little variety in her song composition; in fact, the same chord progression found its way into several of the album’s tracks. If you are looking for and entire album of achingly slow songs to chill out to, look no further.
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