Finally Free is a remarkable title for an artist who opts for a new genre and appearance for each record, who himself draws up the writing, production and recording of the songs and the design of the covers. Perhaps the 'free' lies in the texts, which at times seem to have been written by a medieval poet. With phrases like 'So the mirror polish lap from the serpent's ruptured wrath' it is sometimes
… difficult to follow Daniel Romano on his eighth album. Whereupon the Canadian once again takes a different tack. Finally Free is a folk album with a nod to , and in his period with . Romano also borrows from Dylan the typical way of singing - nasal and a bit sloppy - which you have to love, so to speak. If none of this is a problem, then you can have fun with the pleasantly short Finally Free. (RME)more
