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Ike - Presents The Living Room |
2007 release from John Faye's band Ike and the last to feature the multi-talented Cliff Hillis. This is not a live album as you think, though. It's more like live-in-the-studio with close family and friends, the sonics are lush, fully fleshed out like a studio recording. What's unique here is the snippets of questions from the audience(yielding much humor, a trait of Ike and front-man Faye, ex-leader of the Caufields) and commentary and anecdotes. The end result is 14 songs from their entire career given the full benefit of many years of playing and touring and it all sounds very new and fresh. Clean vocals, razzle dazzle hooks and all the great riffing that mucho talented folks like Faye and Hillis can do like few others - all the tasty melodies, savory arrangements and memorable, radio ready(if radio played decent music, that is) songs that will make it an easy, regular addition to any home playing list for almost anyone reading this. Hard to pin down who Ike sounds like, as the band really has its own sound. Just great, great Power Pop. Listen, get in there. Liberal use of strange and wildly weird and wonderful time signatures and sudden breaks leave any `paint by pop numbers` mold in the dust. The twists and turns are adeptly put to tape and in a better world, more receptive to this style of music, would be all over the radio and varying radio formatting positions. ick this bit of living water for the pop soul up, and let it nurture any pop fix you may need. Extremely Highly Recommended!!
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