ABO
Bucket List

Danish artist Anders Bo has made a bucket list of music that he wants to bring out to the world. He has enlisted the help of a few vocalists, both male and female and he himself plays all the instruments. He is known as a guitarist who has been helping and touring with several strong artists, now he himself is the centre of attention. And he has been clever enough to enlist the help of the vocalists in the song writing procedure of the songs they appear on. So what about this album? Will it bring Anders to the top of the world of music?

The songs certainly have hit potential, the instrumental songs are a bit different though as they are a little more different and to the seasoned reviewer perhaps a little bit more interesting. The vocalists are all good and there is a decent bit of variation over ten tracks and 40 minutes of music. Modern and very pop-rockish production that I think would work really well on any radio station and he could probably reach decent success if his music gets to be heard in any kind of wider circle. I can conclude that it is certainly a quality production, but in order to make a complete recipe for great music you also need really strong songs and that is usually much more difficult than producing well-sounding songs of a more generic quality.

I do however think that ABO does quite well with this album, the songs are pretty good and pretty enjoyable to listen to but it is not a real standout effort in my opinion, it is a little bit too generic for that – even though he has some great guitar playing on here. The songs with vocals are bit too much Max Martin though and I would say that it is the instrumental songs is the real treat of the album, they are way better and more interesting. In the end I think that this album is a little bit too generic to really stand out but it is still a pretty good album.

I think that the seventh track Cars & Guitars is the highlight of the album, it is a very solid track and I really like it. I think Anders does well with this album, he may not rise to the top of the musical world with it but I think many people will find it a very agreeable album. But if this really is his musical bucket list it would seem that his musical aspirations are a little ordinary, but who am I to judge him?

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