A talented producer might help and better drum programming certainly would make this a better record. But good records and good songs are not the same things, and I can see very little making these good songs. There aren't any really strong pieces here, but it's easy to pinpoint a couple of the weakest. I'm one who likes synthesizers, as those of you who have read my writing may know, but even I have always said that there were a couple of sounds no sample would ever be able to imitate successfully, and those were an acoustic guitar and a saxophone. And sorry they should be.
Nothing shows up the limitations of the keyboard better.
So, here we are back in the sonic wallpaper department. The sad truth is that's the middle range where a lot of CDs go. Not strong enough to have a hold on you, not so weak as to wash away in the night. All rights reserved.