Track Listing

1. Nobody's Nothing
2. Everyone Feels Like You
3. Poor Souls
4. Ghost Of What Should've Been
5. Good Deeds
6. I'm Not Going Anywhere Tonight
7. Take Care Of Yourself

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #76581 in Music
• Released on: 2002-11-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: EP
• Dimensions: .15 pounds

Customer Reviews

Beautiful acoustic-based music
If America has an equivalent of the nakedly honest, heart-renching acoustic guitar wielding singer-songwriter Damien Rice, then Mike Kinsella, aka Owen, might be it. His second album under the Owen name, "No Good For No One Now" comes after a very busy career playing in not only some of alternative/emo rock's most famous exponents (Joan of Arc, Owls) but in his own three-piece project called American Football.

Kinsella and co. crafted a thoroughly individual sound with complex time signatures, interweaving arpeggiated clean electric guitars and a general atmosphere of drifting, effortless beauty, matched by Kinsella's heartfelt vocals and lyrics charting the breakups and trials of relationships.

American Football disbanded after one record, but Kinsella has taken their sound to the next level with his self-produced, self-composed and self-performed Owen project. Acoustic guitars dominate, his melodies are sharper and less meandering, and his vocals are dramatically different. Even more delicate than the vocals of Rice, he now whispers his words beautifully, occasionally breaking into the high, keening voice he used on American Football.

His arrangements are stunning, particularly on "The Ghost of What Should Have Been" while the unspeakably delicate and beautiful "Good Deeds" showcases his wonderful talents on guitar arguably to best effect.

His lyrics are now not only incredibly honest and heartfelt, but are often character sketches, such as on the brilliant, interweaving guitar-driven "Poor Souls" on which he details a drunken and lonely night in a club ("...which one of you poor souls wants to drive me home.")

This is one of the best new records in my collection, Owen needs to be heard over here, because he trounces, with the exception of Rice, any of the spat of acoustic-led albums that have become prominent recently. Outstanding.

cool after hours sound
I've loved 'The Ghost of what you should have been' - it was a free download from years ago and eventually I hunted down it's orgins. This 7 track EP which contains an 'after hours' sound. It's quite, low tempo, acoustic sound that is strong on lyrics and comes with a soulfull delivery. It's a caring sharing type of music that's not for everyone but Elliot Smith fans will most probably like.