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.

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CHRISTIAN HOARD

(Posted: Aug 18, 2009)