Tom Odell @ Long Way Down

<Long Way Down> marks the debut album for hotly singer-songwriter from Chichester who also won the Critics' Choice Brit Award this year. The 22 year old Tom Odell enter the album charts at number one in the UK with his soulful vocal to an alternative market despite some considered offensively dull piano played ubiquity as well as the album was rated with parental guidance and influenced by a scathing review in the NME that described the Odell as a "poor, misguided wannabe who's fallen into the hands of the music industry equivalent of Hungarian sex traffickers." How mean with such dismissive review! Is that anything got to do with his music or his jaded look? At least all songs are written by Odell himself and a few tracks co-written by other talented musicians. Besides, Odell were also invited to a live performance in the fashion scene of the Burberry FW2013/14 fashion show and received great applause for those who heard him performed live. Lily Allen, who discovered Odell and signed him to her record label also tweeted to encourage her four million followers to buy his album. She added: " For all the people asking who NME is, it's like this fanzine that people used to read in the 90's." <Long Way Down> still has a few sing along tracks based on simple, naive set of concept being in love, falling out of love. Even though, it is nothing ground breaking but the raw emotion of being young does accomplished well beyond Odell's years especially with his impressive vocal performances with some standouts tracks like <Hold Me>, <Another Love> and <Can't Pretend>.