On Sunday, I wrote the following:

Tom Brosseau’s What I Mean to Say Is Goodbye. Brosseau has a high, reedy sound to his voice. It’s a sound that takes a bit of getting used to, but I like it, on the whole. I know that this is a re-issue of an early CD in his career, and it shows; too much of the music uses the same chord structures and strum patterns; all the similar criticisms of Derek Webb’s Mockingbird ring true here. Like the Webb, though, this is on the whole a very good disc. It gets four stars from me, and “Wear and Tear” is, to my ears, the highlight of the disc.

Since I’ve started listening to the disc more in iTunes and on shuffle in my truck, I’ve come to appreciate it even more. Not having the songs in the original order allows me to mix up the sameness of the record, and I’ve found myself unable to stop listening to it the last couple of days.

So yeah, I still re-rate, for sure. This is edging to the four-and-a-half star mark now.