Silence is easy - it just becomes me

Continuing my trip back through the 2003 album charts.

21/09/03 : Silence Is Easy - Starsailor

I bought Starsailor's debut album on the strength of one of the singles and, whilst I don't remember hating it, I also don't remember ever listening to it which isn't exactly a great sign. I seem to recall I thought it was all a bit too wet to sustain a whole album's worth, so let's just say expectations aren't sky high for this.

Well, it's a bit wet but not disastrously so. I'd say it's all pleasant enough and James Walsh has quite an interesting voice, but I'd struggle to say the album overly held my interest - I played it, I didn't hate it and that's pretty much all I remember about it. It's possible multiple listens might make it stick in the memory, but I can't imagine a scenario whereby multiple listens would have happened, even back in the day. It's all a bit "meh" really.

We're at #2 with a new entry this week on the start of a ten week run, which is the longest one we've seen so far that features a drop every week (that sort of thing pleases me) - somewhat peculiarly it came back for a seven week in '04. The rest of the top five were The Darkness, David Bowie (a new entry with Reality - and I don't think I've ever listened to it), Seal (another new entry) and Sean Paul and the next highest new entries were DMX (#6) and Hayley Westenra (#9).

Wikipedia doesn't have a whole lot on the album - the only thing of interest is that Phil Spector produced two of the tracks, which turned out to be some of his last work before he was imprisoned for murder. The critics either loved ("alternative rock aesthetics with a melodic pop sensibility") or hated ("perfected brand of middle-class miserablism") the album but it did surprisingly well across Europe, making the top twenty in quite a few countries.

"Customers also listened to" James Walsh, Turin Brakes, Delays and JJ72 - Turin Brakes are certainly similar, but I don't know the others. This certainly wasn't hateful but I struggle to understand how it got to #2 - the charts are odd sometimes. 

14/09/03 - More bearable than I was expecting
28/09/03 - Not something I need in my life