eMusic

Start Your Trial

Noise From Words

by

Michael McDermott

 
Noise From Words
view larger image View Larger

Rate it!

Avg: 3.5 (20 ratings)

  • They Say...

    Over a decade and a half into his career, Chicago-based singer/songwriter Michael McDermott shoots for his definitive album on Noise from Words -- his Tonight's the Night, his Late for the Sky, his Nebraska. Released three years after his last album, Noise from Words is, McDermott claims, an intensely personal autobiographical song cycle about addiction and recovery. Unfortunately, McDermott's strength as a songwriter is not naked, raw emotion; it's likely that anyone who hears these 12 songs without the foreknowledge of their creation would be hard-pressed to catch the underlying theme outside of the fairly obvious opening and closing tunes, "Mess of Things" and "I Shall Be Healed." Furthermore, McDermott is a talented but not particularly emotive singer whose rather plain voice doesn't deliver much of an emotional wallop. Noise from Words is an entirely inoffensive piece of adult alternative songcraft, but unfortunately, it seems that McDermott was going for something more than that.

  • You Say...

    Write a Review

    I would like to say...

    Artist: Michael McDermott

    Album: Noise From Words

    Review Title: (maximum 50 characters)

    Your Review: (maximum 1,000 characters)

    Cancel

    Please keep your comments to the recordings themselves, and be courteous and respectful. Thanks! For further info, read our Community Guidelines.

The indie iTunes — Hardcore music fans are migrating to eMusic, the iTunes Music Store's cheaper, cooler cousin.


Rolling Stone
Start Your Trial

© 1998-2009 eMusic.com Inc. eMusic and the eMusic logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks in the USA or other countries. All rights reserved.

All Music Guide © 1992 - 2009 All Media Guide, LLC
Portions of content provided by All Music Guide, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC

Facebook®, YouTube, Flickr™ and Wikipedia® are registered trademarks of their respective owners, Facebook Inc., Google, Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Neither Facebook Inc., Google, Inc., Yahoo! Inc. nor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. are partners or sponsors of eMusic. eMusic uses the Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia API but is not endorsed or certified by Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia. eMusic does not pre-screen, monitor, endorse nor assume any liability for websites, contents, products, services or claims made by Facebook, YouTube, Flickr™ and Wikipedia®.