James Hoffman - Fault Lines (2015)

In small pots Fault Lines, the material is palpable - for some, we would make an ointment. This second album from musician James Hoffman, a boy from Oregon established since 2010 in Ontario, expands the frame without soundtracks folk unveiled on The Union (2011). Smoke envelope comes with the arrival, a more developed body, round ears, although the effect remains horizontal. Hello rustling of guitars, banjo and keyboards with sighing accordion, brief guest gallery on Naturally. One is in the western plains, surely, in the corolla of a folk-country-pop in closed circuit. Meditations. "I felt my common sense sinking deep Beneath the Surface / Rush of adrenaline running like water through a canyon. "Hoffman gives a lot, but sometimes sentimental way, its Achilles heel. Only the beautiful Hills, To Hear You Again and In Darkness mount snow this wine conscientious, euphonic, but lacks the necessary OUMF to major drop.