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

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.