After George Ezra also scored hits in the Netherlands with Budapest and Barcelona, the 24-year-old Briton threatened to become the travel correspondent among the new generation of singer-songwriters. Tipped by the BBC as one of the talents of 2014, he was that year with his after and the most selling artist in his home country. Where Wanted On Voyage was characterized by emotional lyrics
… with sunny melodies, he opts for almost total optimism on this successor. Partly due to Ezra's pleasant baritone and the consumer-friendly playing time, Staying At Tamara's flies past you, before slowing down a few times towards the end. And although no place names appear in the song titles this time, Shotgun ('Something changed in the atmosphere, architecture, unfamiliar, I could get used to this') is definitely about the joys of traveling. (RME)more
