If you ever wanted someone to sing you to sleep, I would highly recommend Mark Crotti. Those smooth vocals are like a warm hug from your best friend. This 8-song EP is an absolute delight and exactly what you need to round out your 2021. This was the nicest 27 minutes of my week, Crotti creates music that carries with it, warmth and comfort and gives you a little serotonin booster.

The album starts with the Title Track ‘Nice Enough Place’. This track is thoughtful in every way you can think. Aside from the generally brilliant musicianship and warm vocals, the song is well structured lyrically and sonically to convey this great magnitude of emotion. You journey with Crotti through this emotional tale of love and longing. You feel every little pang of emotion, as well as this overwhelming feeling of love and hope. This is a stellar track and a brilliant opener to the EP.

There is an airy and light quality to all the tracks on this album. They are soft and delicate. If you imagine holding in your hand a blown glass snowflake. Small, tangible but almost transparent and something you need to be careful with. That is how I felt, listening to this album. I felt like I had been given something precious. Tracks ‘The flight of a Butterfly’ and ‘ Sex Jam 1’ were some of my favorites from my listen through. The vocals are soft and buttery, I can’t quite pin down the genre I would put this EP in. It is soft and easy but equally musically sophisticated.

My favorite track on the EP was ‘Wild Daisy’. This song for me was unrivalled. I loved the false start, the lyrics, and the overall feel of the song. The piano in this track is sad and somber and carries the first half of the piece before the beat picks up. This song has everything. This is my melancholy track of 2021. I could listen to this every day, on repeat.

Another honorable mention on the EP is ‘You & Me (Feat Eileen Sparks)’. I am a sucker for an acoustic guitar, so I was in for the ride from the first strum. I loved this track. Much like the overall feeling of Crotti’s music, I can’t explain why. There is like a light shroud of mystery covering Mark Crotti and his music. It just gave me this inescapable feeling of love and loss, but in a beautiful and meaningful way. This track along with the entire EP is a really beautiful ode to emotional vulnerability and the electricity of emotion involved in humanity and human connection. I can’t say enough nice things about this EP to convey how much I liked it.

This EP was a truly unique listening experience and worth every minute of my time. I promise you would not be disappointed if you gave it a play through.