Not Everything Beautiful Is Good is English singer/songwriter Findlay Brown's second album for the Nettwerk label and fourth overall.
A follow-up musically and tonally to his reflective third album, 2015's Slow Light, they both follow a move from Brooklyn to a rural part of his wife's home country of Denmark.
They also both embrace a quiet, contemplative folk-pop, though Brown has described this album as having "more optimism." Even without knowing his surroundings, it evokes long walks along sylvan paths on a dewy morning, as it contemplates love, his place in the world, and the search for contentedness.
While there certainly are graceful acoustic guitar tunes to be found on the album ("Call It What You Want" and the title track, for starters), more lively entries include "Sound in the Distance" and "Feet to the Flame," which offers brisk drums and light strings as the songwriter arrives at a personal life philosophy.
Other songs reinforce Brown's delicate guitar picking with strings, or strings, horns, and timpani in the case of "Feathers from the Fray." Less psychedelic than 2008's Love Will Find You and less melancholic than Slow Light, Not Everything Beautiful Is Good is considerate and self-assured, with a state of mind and arrangements that leave room to breathe.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call It What You WantFindlay Brown, Bo Rande | Findlay Brown | Play | 04:20 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | Feet to the FlameFindlay Brown, Bo Rande, Davide Rossi | Findlay Brown | Play | 04:22 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | HomeFindlay Brown, Bo Rande | Findlay Brown | Play | 03:18 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | Not Everything Beautiful Is GoodFindlay Brown | Findlay Brown | Play | 03:00 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | Sound in the DistanceFindlay Brown, Bo Rande | Findlay Brown | Play | 03:00 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | In Search of the Golden FlowerFindlay Brown, Bo Rande | Findlay Brown | Play | 02:01 | 4 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | Only What Is RealFindlay Brown, Bo Rande, Davide Rossi | Findlay Brown | Play | 04:49 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | Feathers From the FrayFindlay Brown, Bo Rande | Findlay Brown | Play | 03:02 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 9 | Seven HoursFindlay Brown, Bo Rande | Findlay Brown | Play | 05:09 | 11 MB | 0 MB |
| 10 | We Go Out into the LightFindlay Brown, Bo Rande | Findlay Brown | Play | 03:04 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 11 | When the Lights Go OutFindlay Brown, Davide Rossi | Findlay Brown | Play | 03:36 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| 12 | The Morning Waits for UsFindlay Brown, Bo Rande | Findlay Brown | Play | 04:07 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 43 mins | 100 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Findlay Brown | Composer, Primary Artist |
| 2 | Bo Rande | Composer |
| 3 | Davide Rossi | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |