![]() “Home Movies” is softer and even more delicate than the last track, a combination of guitar, piano, and Reid gliding over both by the skin of his teeth. He chooses to elongate the track however as it ventures just over the five-minute mark. Thus far, Reid doesn’t go for a large, lush orchestral setting to get his songs across, but he comes close during the song’s middle section and conclusion. Reid excels at the sort of tunes that are perfect for summer sunsets or walks in the park, especially on the adorable “Air with Words”, a number performed on piano that recalls the late Elliott Smith and his pragmatic lullabies and touches on “dizzying heights forging a future on false sentiments”. “And now it’s been done the surreptitious one saves the day / A cameo in blue with lines better than you turns the stage lights off”, he sings while strumming his guitar. The title track keeps the album moving along with accordions and a dreamy, highbrow pop niche. The handclap also gives it a nice touch without resorting to the party-time, feel-good, sing-along rut some numbers devolve into. One lovable hook appears on “Love with You”, a self-explanatory title that has a great hook as Reid mentions Edgar Allan Poe. What is also noticeable is how little of a lilt or accent Reid possesses, just one ambling soft pop nugget after another. The ease he brings to each song is quite pleasing, as if he just conjured the tune up on a whim and it happened to work. People like Danny Wilde and the Rembrandts or Michael Penn are also fair comparisons on “We All Need”, which has a hint of piano and a vast, wide-open Americana style to it. The almost ethereal harmonies in the distance give it a spacey, Byrds-like flavor as well. His vocals just above a whisper but as smooth as you couldn’t even come close to imagining, Reid mix just a bit of his Beatles influence within his own strengths. The album, which features members of various groups not well known on North American shores (Icecream Hands, Art of Fighting), instantly recalls Neil Finn or the Finn Brothers on the soft, acoustic guitar driven “Two Left Feet”. After recording various songs for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Reid eventually caught the attention of Popboomerang Records, a native label that offers some of the sweetest pop Down Under, or up over for that matter. Tim Reid is an Australian singer-songwriter making a bit of a name for himself in his native land.
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