Sail By The Stars
was actually up for review two weeks ago, and I realized it sounded so similar
to the other band Jocelyn, that the reviews would bleed too much into each
other, so I bumped Sail By The Stars out. I didn't notice until this week that
Sail By The Stars also has a song that echoes a musical phrase found in
"Love Drunk" (Boys Like Girls). Clearly, I made the right decision in
separating them.
(In this case, the
phrase pops up in "April Showers Bring May Flowers".)
That being said,
listening to them two weeks apart, they sound fairly different. Sail By The
Stars does not veer into country at all. It is the solo project of Josh K, and
he describes it as sunny pop/rock. That sounds about right. Often acoustic,
there is a little bit of a folk feel at times, but very much via pop, with
songs based on relationships.
I don't know that I
would have come up with "sunny" on my own, because there is often a
plaintive feeling, but the tone is generally optimistic, and always earnest. I
think fans of Owl City would appreciate
the music.
The primary
shortcoming is a sense of sameness from one song to another, with similar
subject matter and vocal patterns. Part of this may be a natural result of the
band consisting of a single person. There may be some similarities to Dashboard
Confessional too, actually, but Sail By The Stars is definitely more sunny than
that.
Music is available
via iTunes.
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