ROYAL WOOD
A Good Enough Day
Dead Daisy
· Royal Wood sets the ball on a tee but he just can’t make contact.
Royal Wood’s second full-length album, A Good Enough Day, splits the uncomfortable difference between Ron Sexsmith, Rufus Wainwright and a score of clinically depressed singer-songwriters.
The problem is that while the aforementioned men control their music with a range of emotions, Royal Wood comes off more like a flat line on a heart monitor. Not to say that A Good Enough Day is completely dead, just that there are no peaks and valleys. Even the promisingly titled "Acting Crazy (It’s a Breakdown)" turns out to be a tepid piano ballad, which is pretty much the order of the day as far as the rest of the album is concerned.
Wood acquits himself well vocally, but the lack of variation in his songwriting turns out to be his undoing here.
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