hideaway- The Weepies

This CD is a solid work of mellow melancholy. There is not much startling or unique here but it contains well crafted songs that hold one's interest.

Orbiting uses a nice metaphor for relationships:

you were a kind of moon outside my room
I feel you nearby, now I feel you gone

Hideaway is about knowing when to "honestly leave":

even the stars sometimes fade to gray

Little Bird is about those times where things aren't going well:

Sometimes it's hard to say even one thing true
when all eyes have turned aside
they used to talk to you

Likewise Antarctica:

I'll just remember the wind and the snow..
that it alone drowns out the inside of me

And Not Dead Yet:

There's another way I'd rather be
with all the ways I tried to keep in touch
that you will never know

And Lighting Candles:

Trying not to hope too hard ...
I'm still in the dark lighting candles

Other strong songs are Just Blue, Takes so long, How you survived the War
Somehow these songs sound to me like 2 separate songwriters, who don't quite integrate often enough. Both singers have beautiful voices but I'd like just a little more harmony. There is a little too much melancholy in this album even though they do it so well. And so it is finally, with a sense of relief, that the album ends on an upbeat song All This Beauty.