At Long Last… After 2 Weeks…

So this post took me A LONG TIME to write. Why you may ask? Well I’ll tell ya…  A few weeks back I wrote about Sean Wright. I talked about his Album-A-Month project and I only briefly mentioned his 26th album in 26 months “The Calling”, and believe it or not that post gave this blog legs of its own. It generated more hits than any other post I have written. Don’t think I am after hits because that is not my goal but more hits means more people are seeing the other posts and hopefully supporting other Indie Bands as well as Sean. But Going back and realizing that I never gave the album a review…I knew I had to come back to it, and review the album.

The Calling is album number 26 in as many months by Indie artist Sean Wright (He is now done with his 27th and #28 should be here in July). The Calling Starts off DARK… and I am not talking merely about using the low end of the acoustic range to give tracks an ominous feel, but the lyrics are from a place I wouldn’t want to visit. Here is what I mean. The Calling is the title track and it deals directly with a life changing event. You can hear sounds of water throughout the whole track, which eludes to how we are drawn to water, and the power that something we take for granted has over us.

The song Trust is a corner stone for the album and for this process as it signifies the beginning of new songwriting partnerships. Trust features the writings by poet, singer songwriter Reine Amodeo. The track “Could I Be a Dream” deals with some things that I often think about, which is “What if I wake up one morning and everything I know is gone?” or “What if everything I know is just a dream?”.  Could I Be a Dream has a beautifully  moving harmony and the chorus is one that will get stuck in your head and you wont mind. 

The latter part of the album sheds some of the darkness while keeping the lyrical intensity going. This album is impresses me on many different levels and every time I listen to it I am more impressed with its quality, its skill, and where it came from. 

In June 2009 Sean Release Album #27 in 27 months, it is Called Beautiful Blue. Please Check it out HERE

To get The Calling Visit Sean’s Site or Jamendo. 

Once again all of Sean’s 27 albums are licensed for free under the Creative Commons License.

AND PLEASE IF YOU LIKE THIS OR ANYTHING YOU FIND ON MY SITE SUPPORT THE ARTIST IN ANY WAY YOU CAN; ITS THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP THE MUSIC FLOWING!

People With Glass Waves… Shouldn’t Ride Surfboards

This week the best thing I found is not my favorite thing ever but it has the most potential and is the most professional this week. Glass Waves are a 3 piece out of St. Louis made up of a group of guys who have spent years with other bands and came together in 2008 and made this album, their debut together called “One Day We’ll All Just Float Away”. A fluid musically  based style accompanied by a haunting vocal overlay this band as one to watch out for. To simply define a genre for Glass Waves is to try and “catch lighting in a bottle”, it cant be done, there are some strong pop and pop rock influences evident by their sound, but they also have a great indie rock sound with guitars that are reminiscent of the great Johnny Marr, the former guitarist of Indie forefathers “The Smiths”, and most recently of “Modest Mouse”. 

I started off by saying this isn’t one of my favorites, so you may be asking “Why on earth did you post it then?”  Well you’ll notice this is the second time I have posted an album that has not been my favorite or that has been disappointing. The reason for this is that these albums are note worthy and show signs of potential superstars. 

What drawbacks do I have with this album? Well there is only 1. I find myself so entranced by the instrumental parts of the song that the soft almost wispy vocal goes largely unnoticed. It often feels like something is missing because the vocal is fading into the background.

All that said Glass Waves have a great debut on their hands and I can assure the world that if they continue and stay with this project “The Future (for them) is so bright I gotta wear shades”.

Their album is available for free download from Frostclick.com and they are featured on the main screen of Frostwire for the time being, for free on Jamendo, and is also available for free from their website glasswavesmusic.com

This album is Licensed by the Creative Commons License

It’s not a Paper Moon… It’s Paper Tiger!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper Tiger as a band are hard to figure out… From Genre to style to influences its really hard to pinpoint where this band started. Paper Tiger is currently made up of 2 friends from The Netherlands (They are usually a 3 piece band and are currently looking for a drummer). This release is their debut album, its titled “Everyone Here” and it has something for everyone.

This album takes pages from the play books that made The Beatles, Ricky Nelson, and the Everly Brothers popular in the 1950’s and 1960’s with the production values, techniques and electronic additions of 1970’s disco stars The Village People and The BeeGees, and 1980’s pop bands Flock of Seagulls, to weave an intricate sound that I haven’t heard before. Combine this sound with lyrics that feel as if they were penned by Alternative Rock legends like Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Bono (U2), or Beck, and you have the future of Alternative or Indie Music.  

This Album is truly a joy to listen too.

Please Download and Enjoy, and contribute to the artist if you like it.

Album available on Jamendo.com, and is Licensed by Creative Commons.

Its offered for a Free Download Here

I promised a Review….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I promised a review of the albums I posted last night so here it is.

 

Adam McHeffey: Lets Kick Fire

Adam McHeffy, has the beginnings of an absolute acoustic Gem here. And for this being his Debut Album I am super excited about his potential future work. Songs like Song 66, Wonderlust, and Esmeralda show great songwriter who is coming into his own by putting together an album.  In parts the slow acoustic whispery voice gets a bit redundant, and boring, but overall its a great album to use to kick back and relax. It will go in my playlist for when I go to bed.

 

Fading Autumn: My Transparancies

Fading Autumn disappointed me with this album. It is their second album in my collection, and it is a let down. While it has some major redeeming qualities, they cannot overshadow the lack of change from the first to the second album. What I mean by this is that in January the released “Boy loves Girl” which had tons of potential, and this album which was released in March doesn’t seem to make any progress, at all. I hope they keep at it and that their next release incorporates the experience they should have gained from making these 2 albums. It does have redeeming qualities as I said, those being the style and skill of the playing. It is a very good acoustic alternative album especially if you are looking for background or mood music thats relaxing.

 

Zero Gravity Toilet: Antidotes for the Imaginary

With Zero Gravity Toilet you get what you want from it. Experimental Instrumental… If you want to have a moving experience it is possible, if you want to be entertained that can happen too. With a definite rock feel, and a flare for the untested Zero Gravity Toilet have made a record that I am glad I found. It has so many uses and so much potential, from things like movie scores to highlight films for sports, this is a truly fun listen and a great album.

 

I guess I was disappointed last week because I strive to find the best of the best thats out there in the unknown music world and bring it to you and I was unable to find that one album that I felt met those standards. Put these 3 together and you got it… but I still felt disappointed. 

On a side note: Sorry for the review seperate from the post itself I felt like I needed more time to give an accurate review.