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| Rollingstone |
 A 22-year-old singer-songwriter who lives with Buddhist monks in Southern California, Trevor Hall fills his third album with spiritually inclined roots jams like "Unity," which features his buddy Matis-yahu as well as his own husky, Caribbean-accented croon. Hall turns out lots of words, but he doesn't say much, and his heartfelt tunes skew bland: He gets too cute on the sleepy acoustic sketch "Lime Tree," where he climbs up and hides out in said object, and elsewhere he turns good intentions into near-clichés like "What we fighting for? Why we still at war? Where's the love?" Nothing wrong with putting spirituality on wax, but you gotta make it sing....full text |
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| Apple |
| Possessing a burly voice and a mystical outlook, this California singer/songwriter draws heavily from Jamaican influences in fashioning his music. “Where’s the Love,” “Unity” and “My Baba” slink along to reggae grooves as Hall toasts his way through uplifting lyrics. There’s a psychedelic tinge present on tracks like “Internal Heights” (a swirling pledge of spiritual purity) and “Sing the Song” (a chant-along anthem driven by a churning drum line). Producer Marshall Altman does a good job at dressing up these tunes in a variety of arrangements, adding sitar, melodica and toy piano in spots. Beyond such embellishments, some of the best moments here are the sparse acoustic numbers, such as the melancholy “Many Roads” and the spacey “Origami Crane.” Hall comes across as a sincere seeker of cosmic experience, whether the mood is yearning (“House”) or enraptured (“Volume”). In the end Hall’s solid talent lends substance to even his most high-flying visions....full text |
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| Charlestoncitypaper |
Trevor Hall, a South Carolina native, has come a long way in his 22 years. Growing up around music, he had his sights set on making a life out of it from an early age. That he is now six albums deep should say something about his passion for creating tunes.
On his latest self-titled work, Hall mixes his easy-going guitar-driven reggae, burly voice, and lyrics infused with a message of freedom and transcendence. Hall views the two years of high school he spent at the Idyllwild Arts Academy, a school east of Los Angeles, as life-changing. This influence is apparent on these 13 tracks and in Hall's persona, now a far-out West Coaster who, sometime in the recent past, wandered into a Buddhist monastery and developed an interest in the esotericism of the Far East.
The slightly psychedelic echoes and sitar of "Internal Heights" introduce the album by inducing a sort of calm. Standout "Unity" seeks to bring the listener closer to God, or, here, "the sender." And the uplifting chorus of "Volume" sounds like early U2, invoking a mountainous landscape of guitars with the reverb turned up....full text |
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