The Rebirth of Venus

Aside from his Evan Dando-tweaking breakthrough “I Wish I Was Him” way back in 1993, Ben Lee’s innocuously anemic pop has never been terribly interesting. But The Rebirth Of Venus, his seventh full-length, offers a more direct kind of terrible. There’s the self-congratulatory narcissism of “What’s So Bad (About…

deep-end issues on seventh album Aussie crooner Ben Lee has been

For example, take Ben Lee's salute to femininity, The Rebirth of Venus.

Rebirth of Venus does its damnedest to play against Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee’s already modest skill set.

Ben Lee - The Rebirth of Venus review: Lee undoubtedly has a gift for melody and the right ear for a hook that sticks, but his one-track mind has become, over the course of seven albums, the same old formula.