Band:
Dan Reed - vocals, guitars, keys
Robert Ikiz - drums
Bengan Jonasson - bass
Discography:
Coming Up for Air (2010)
Signal Fire (2013)
In Between the Noise (2014)
Guests:
Info:
Released 2015-03-27
Reviewed 2015-03-15
Links:
danreed.com
youtube
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Soft rock that is very melodic, kind of reminds me of the Mark Spiro album I reviewed some years ago. Inoffensive music that probably might appeal to most people in some way, the sound is alright and the vocalist works pretty well for this album. One could argue that there is a slight lack of originality in this album, and that the one-hour playing time is a bit on the long side considering that this kind of music is fairly difficult to vary in a large enough scale to last for one hour. I think that we can describe this as a good quality production, I think that Dan Reed and his band manages to put together an album that has a strong sound.
I also think that it is a good album, solid sound and solid songs. It is inoffensive enough to not scare off the wide audience, but it is probably not offensive enough to really appeal to anyone either. It is a good musical distraction, but not really something that grabs my attention. This puts the album out of the higher ratings considering that you have to be either amazingly good or very good with lots of originality to go with that quality and unfortunately Dan Reed doesn’t really have any of this. Sure this album is not bad and I doubt the buyers will be very disappointed with the album because in the end it is fairly good and well made.
There are thirteen tracks on the album and none of them really stand out, sure they are alright but with one hour of tracks that sound pretty much alike you tend to grow a bit tired with it as it plays towards the end. I think that this album will have difficulty to stand out in a very crowded musical landscape and, even though it is pretty well made it is quite forgetful and too anonymous to really deserve a higher rating on our scale.
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