Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.
As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.
Album: Warm on a Cold Night (2016)
Artist: HONNE
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Warm on a Cold Night is all the bluster of a very overconfident Tinder match - lots of talk, little game to actually back it up, and plenty of words to explain away whatever it is that happened to mess things up.
It’s a shame, really - the titular track and ‘Good Together’ are great little ballads, as long as you can tune out the awkward couplets that snuck through quality control, but much of this record puts itself in the doghouse by virtue of being so limp-wristed nothing could revive it.
Quality control is unfortunately the name of the game here - as debutants, HONNE show a lovely command of smooth sound, with effortless glide to make these tracks push in a way that sure felt revolutionary in 2016, even if it wasn’t really all that unique. It’s never really ‘slick’ or ‘slimy’, but it carries the heft of a well-produced beat throughout, and that makes this a much more appealing listen than most would be.
Big game it may be, but there are flashes in the pan that might make this one worth a swipe to the right.
Rating: 7/10
Best Tracks: Good Together
Worst Tracks: FHKD
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