After listening to "Smile" the rest of sam Hell's album disappoints. "Smile" sounds like Sarah Harmer's "Silver Road", featuring Tragically Hip frontman Gordon Downie, in it's sublime coupling of two disparate voices. The sentiment "Love is a smile" isn't prophetic but it's genuine. The rest of the album sounds unfinished and raw. Where do I start? The lyrics sam Hell sings are dislocated, unclear, and egotistical. The songs are all about sam Hell and not about sam Hell as one of us. The production on the album breaks and crackles at certain over-powering moments, and the use of reverb and space sounds artificial. There is no coherency either to the songs or to the flow of the album. At one point sam Hell is singing about smiles then later singing about the city eating him? Both individually are fine statements but there is such a mashed feeling to the album that they come across as one. Overall, the album is boring and pretentious. What sam Hell did well on "Smile" was give up themselves, and vulnerability is what sam Hell needs.
1. How Deep Is Your Imagination
2. You Don't Say
3. A Devil With My Name On It
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5. Smile
6. Alone
7. War
8. In The City
9. One Last Chance
10. In The Future



