SOMERSET MEADOWS
Sounds of Sunshine (self-released)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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This disc gets pretty annoying pretty quick. I guess my big, main, and becoming-redundant problem with this album is the recording quality is bad, and flat, and miked weird, so that it sounds like the vocals were just plopped on top of a pre-recorded track. In fact, it's the vocals I have the greatest problem with, even more than the boring, metronomic percussion and rhythm guitar - they sound like some guy just kind of singing along with a karaoke band, falling out of time just enough every once in a while that he has to stretch the words out a little longer than necessary to let the music catch up with wherever he happens to be in the song. It's just annoying.

[Pick this up at http://www.somersetmeadows.net.]

© 2004 - Holly Day