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So the rebooted Album A Day project stumbled out of the gate a bit, as yesterday came up blank. Luckily today had no serious plans in mind, so plenty of time to double up. First, the album that would have been posted yesterday; Panic! At The Disco's debut A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.
Panic! At The Disco's debut record dropped around the same time Fall Out Boy saw their highest point of success to date. The two bands always seem to be lumped together, creating an unfair deal for Panic. The Las Vegas quintet are less blatantly pop or punk than FOB, and are more like a cabaret group that just happened to have a few punkish songs. might be remembered as one of the albums that made dance-rock cool, at least in the indie circles. I love the band's new direction on the Beatles homage Pretty, Odd., despite the universe's lukewarm reaction to its less-hooky, orchestral feel. If you're tired of Pete Wentz and want something intelligent and catchy, go through your archives and give this another spin.
Today (1/3/09): Gavin DeGraw - Chariot
My usual problem with singer-songwriters is the fact that they are easily the most formulaic genre in music right now, moreso than rap and moreso than country. It's usually breaks down to a guy with a cottony smooth voice and an acoustic guitar who's had his share of heartbreak and needs to sing about it for his own personal therapy's sake. Chariot was Gavin DeGraw's attempt to break that up. Yeah, there's still some schmaltzy tracks on this one ("More Than Anyone"), but it's buried amongst the charming rejection of "Nice To Meet You (Anyway)" and the brilliant party song "Chemical Party", saying nothing of the title track. Unfortunately DeGraw walked away from that on his 2008 follow-up, but Chariot still stands out as a wonderful solo debut from a time when John Mayer and his contemporaries were churning out the same coffeehouse-friendly dreck.
Back tomorrow and in the future with consistent postings.
==TJ==
Panic! At The Disco's debut record dropped around the same time Fall Out Boy saw their highest point of success to date. The two bands always seem to be lumped together, creating an unfair deal for Panic. The Las Vegas quintet are less blatantly pop or punk than FOB, and are more like a cabaret group that just happened to have a few punkish songs. might be remembered as one of the albums that made dance-rock cool, at least in the indie circles. I love the band's new direction on the Beatles homage Pretty, Odd., despite the universe's lukewarm reaction to its less-hooky, orchestral feel. If you're tired of Pete Wentz and want something intelligent and catchy, go through your archives and give this another spin.Today (1/3/09): Gavin DeGraw - Chariot
My usual problem with singer-songwriters is the fact that they are easily the most formulaic genre in music right now, moreso than rap and moreso than country. It's usually breaks down to a guy with a cottony smooth voice and an acoustic guitar who's had his share of heartbreak and needs to sing about it for his own personal therapy's sake. Chariot was Gavin DeGraw's attempt to break that up. Yeah, there's still some schmaltzy tracks on this one ("More Than Anyone"), but it's buried amongst the charming rejection of "Nice To Meet You (Anyway)" and the brilliant party song "Chemical Party", saying nothing of the title track. Unfortunately DeGraw walked away from that on his 2008 follow-up, but Chariot still stands out as a wonderful solo debut from a time when John Mayer and his contemporaries were churning out the same coffeehouse-friendly dreck.Back tomorrow and in the future with consistent postings.
==TJ==
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