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From the first fast-picking banjo song to the last swinging ballad, Leftover Salmon uses this disc to showcase their diversity and song-writing capability. Any listener can appreciate the spectrum of sound with songs like the sure folk rock hit, “Woody Guthrie,” and the Southern fried “Keep On Walkin.” The album delightfully maintains an impressive sense of cohesion and style. Instead of leading you astray, each track offers a different road to walk down and a different mood to discover...
...chum Matt (Mark Ruffalo), the friend who conveniently inhabits a Greenwich Village apartment around the block. Matt is no longer the loser boy-next-door, but a tanned, buff, hot-but-doesn’t-know-it-in-that-aw-shucks-way photographer. Insert Billy Joel’s ballad “Vienna Waits for You and Love” and we’ve got a young love reunited. Forget that Matt happens to be engaged to a Chicago weathergirl. All it takes for Jenna to win him over is an innocent ride on a swing...
...feel, and that is real.” It’s when this earnestness reaches the right balance with Kweller’s admiration of his musical predecessors that the finer moments of the album occur, as on the title track and the sweetly melodic ballad “Living Life...
...heartbreaking, glitchy ballad for the era of damaged CDs, appeared in hollowed out form, leaving the synth to soar gorgeously, high above the bass...
...which was recorded live at the Coney Island Museum in their hometown. It is always risky covering a well-known song, let alone one off the immortal album Pet Sounds, but TMBG do justice to the Beach Boys with their straightforward rendition of the wholesome lost love ballad...