Ron Sexsmith

Ron Sexsmith's third album further displays the singer-songwriter's gift for delicate melodies, crafty lyrical observations and heart-on-sleeve ruminations on the world around him. With a bit more beefed-up instrumentation, things here sound a bit more produced than on his previous pair of albums, though clear, emotionally expressive verses on quieter numbers like "The Idiot Boy" and ""Riverbed" make up the best stuff on the record.

That the term "singer-songwriter" is no longer one of abuse is at least partly because of the
excellent Ron Sexsmith. A thirtysomething Canadian who sounds sometimes like a young
Jackson Browne and sometimes like the Ray Davies of Village Green Preservation Society,
moon-faced Ron writes and sings sweetly droopy songs that melt the heart and assuage the
soul. Sexsmith brings an expanded palette to Whereabouts: banjos and clarinets,... More >