Ivor Game - Small

Reviewed by James Tabbinor

Ivor Game is a little known London based singer/songwriter who’s been around for a good decade or so, and has had a string of well received albums and singles. You may not have heard of him but he’s managed to tour the UK and Europe, sometimes going as far as America to play gigs. Having said that, they obviously can’t have been massive tours otherwise we’d have heard more of him, so he can’t be that good, right?

Well you know what, this isn’t half bad. It’s actually quite good, and different. It isn’t mind blowing or musically revolutionary, but it isn’t trying to be. The lyric ‘There’s something quite remarkable in being small’ sums it up, and I suppose that reflects his career; he’s not been at the top selling platinum albums, but he’s quite content and happy not to be. He obviously just enjoys making music, and fair play to him, because this is a lot better than some generic basement band shite that sings about making it to the top and the like. This is just a nice song with decent lyrics and a gentle guitar piece backing it, and it doesn’t claim to be anything else, so you can’t really fault him for that.

3/5