Album Review: Wake Owl - The Private World Of Paradise

8 April 2014 | 2:54 pm | Carley Hall

"Official single, Candy, is oddly one of the misses, offering little more than transient jangly guitar that puff by like harmless smoke."

The online gushing and widely positive reviews accompanying Canadian indie popsters Wake Owl's 2012 five-song EP provided the perfect entrée for debut, The Private World Of Paradise. And while some of the tracks don't rise above pedestrian filler, the quiet hype is mostly justified. Singer Colyn Cameron lends his vast insight and light crooning to the ruminative strummer, Letters, and the more nostalgic '60s dancehall pop of glossy but plodding Vacation. Official single, Candy, is oddly one of the misses, offering little more than transient jangly guitar that puff by like harmless smoke.