Urban Legends
Audioinformationphenomena Records
Straight up indie rock. Straight up great as well. This cd is almost the
epitome of the term "indie-rock" I guess. At least by the conception of that
term I have. The songs here are straight-forward, some noisy, some softer
and subdued, and all rock. The singer has a soft, soothing quality to his
voice and the guitars are often jangly and clean. As far as i can tell,
everything is played by one man, Hutch Harris, with whom I've had limited
email discussion with. He also used to play in a "project" called Haelah
(with Albert from Mohinder and the A-Set) who released a 7" and split 7" on
Tree Records I believe. In any event, this is a really good, solid release.
There are no tricks pulled, no gags, and nothing here is completely
groundbreaking or overly original. It's just good. The only real gripe I
have with the CD is that with 9 songs, it is only twenty-one or so minutes
long. That gives you barely enough time to start it and crank out a good
email without interruption. These poppy-rock gems just glide on by before
you have to reach over and press play again (one thing I'm sure you'll do if
you go out and find this CD [which you should]). Short or not, the songs
here are genuinely good and genuinely catchy. Seek this out, it'll be worth
your effort.
...david smith...
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