One of the
advantages in reviewing a young band with a small catalog is that you can learn
it pretty thoroughly in a short time. You can spend much longer on someone
who's been around a while, and still feel like you are only scratching the
surface.
That's
where I am with Anthony Green. I have been listening a lot, but I still feel
like I am missing a lot.
It may have
been helpful to spend more background time listening to Saosin and Circa
Survive, because I haven't spent as much times with them as I would have liked
either. However, my general impression at this point is that while there are
similarities in the sound, that as a solo act Green gets much more personal,
and also considerably softer.
It's not
that the music is soft rock - it probably fits best into indie - but the music
does seem more tender and focused on connections. I could be superimposing some
of that based on listening to the commentary for Green's most recent release,
2013's Young Legs, but it does come across as more longing, and
plaintive.
It covers a
lot of ground. I was surprised to find an instrumental, with "Springtime
Out The Van Window" (from Avalon), but then also surprised by the
track's beauty, and how effectively it conveys that feeling of traveling past a
spring landscape. From the same album, "Drug Dealer" lulls you in a
way that could convey narcotics. There's a nice drama on the intro to
"Breaker". All together, the effect of the craft is impressive.
Having said
all of that, the song that struck me the most was "You Have To Believe It
Will Happen", because it is the one that applies most to my own life at
this time.
With an
artist who puts so much of his soul into his music, it stands to reason that
many different people will be struck at different times.
There is a
lot there to discover.
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