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| Whether Budd presents quiet grooves ("Empty Day"), haunted musings ("Your Shadow"), or joyous, danceable pop ("Trying Here"), he gets into the heads of many different characters and wraps the music in orchestral arrangements. He can also lift you so high with the music, you may not realize how pensive the lyrics are. You can either let go and dance or sit and wander into the psychology of it all. | |
| Indie-Music.com,
May 2004 |
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| ...a seductively handsome man-boy with a crooning voice. | |
NewYorkCool.com,
October 2004 |
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| A diverse, theatrically constructed album, fueled by Budd's confident and pitch-perfect vocals. | |
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Gazette, August 2004 |
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...strong, unwavering vocals and tight compositions. The combination of his deep, throaty singing voice and the extensive percussion and keyboards heard in the tracks make Budd come across as though Joan Armatrading and David Gray meshed into one slightly less gritty stage act. |
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Gay
City News, August 2004 |
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| U2 meets Moby meets 80's Queen | |
GayToday.com,
August 2004 |
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| Very rarely do we get to hear a voice as unblemished and as full of wide-eyed awe and innocence. The best is truly yet to come from this young star. | |
jedryan.com,
May 2004 |
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| Bill’s pure voice is perhaps the strongest instrument in his brand of electronic indie pop. | |
Audiofile,
April 2004 |
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| He uses his strong theatre voice with pop and electronic backdrops, similar to David Gray's style but Budd's voice is stronger, and has more soul and is less gritty than Gray's. | |
Bay
WIndows, March 2004i |
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| Bill Budd sounds like he was listening to a lot of David Gray while he created the set of melodic and moody electronic tracks on his debut... That's not necessarily a bad thing, as you can hear on "Trying Here" and "Again". | |
Windy
City Times, March 2004 |