G.Love - Lemonade Album Review

G.Love
Lemonade
Album Review

As well as being the person who we can "thank" for having discovered Jack Johnson, G.Love creates similarly insufferable albums, with a considerable dollop of unjustifiable smugness.

Firstly, the fact that a man who is quite clearly white, can call himself "G.Love", and sing in such a grating sub-Marvin Gaye fashion, should be enough to make the average person question whether there is a God. Secondly, this album is so stuffed with over-polished, anodyne parodies of musical genres, that there is no real excuse for its existence.

"Ride" sounds like it was conceived, written and packaged, solely to soundtrack the closing credits of a romantic-"comedy" starring Jennifer Lopez and Luke Wilson. Elsewhere, a tiny spark of promise on "Free" is promptly extinguished with Teflon production values.

Most of the fourteen tracks on display here are as dull as ditchwater in their attempts to fuse folk, blues and hip-hop, leaving only a bitter aftertaste of sheer arrogance, and the sense than "Love" and his cohorts actually believe what they are doing is groundbreaking in some way. They couldn't be more wrong.

Lemonade is in one sense an apt name for this LP, what with it being rather dull, the problem is, it's nowhere near as refreshing.

Ben Davy