LONG WAY DOWN
Tom O’Dell
(Sony)
The BRIT’s critics choice winner, who spent a year of his childhood in New Zealand, is the best kind of everyman songwriter.
Somewhere in between the soaring and earthy vocals, where a song such a Hold Me, has Beatlesque influences and throbbing piano flourishes O’Dell shows he has the touch of a classic tunesmith about him on a debut album which is unfashionably accessible, self-aware and confident.
You often wonder though how he might have packed so many emotional experiences into 22 years.
Another Love, where all his tears are being used up on another love and the original demo of Till I Lost which has, except for the solo hossanah chorus, an Elton John Tumblewed Connection to it, are typical of his straightforward lyricism and catchiness.
O’Dell’s are the kind of songs that sticks in your head, which is what good pop music does.
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