I understand the context is heartbreaking and the lyrics are full of grief and sorrow but that is not enough to make an album "good". Musically there is nothing going on here. All he does is read some poetry he wrote, accompanied by extremely minimalistic, repetitive guitar arrangements. Sometimes less is more, of course, but not in this case. His voice lacks any emotion and the album feels like one long song. This resembles an audio book for poetry, I can barely call this an album ...
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