Michael Carpenter

Labels are lucky to come across an artist who can do it all...for other artists as a visionary producer or guest musician and, when they have the time, for themselves. here`s pop`s latest Brad Jones. Australian Michael Carpenter so effortlessly speaks of his own pop passion for the kind of music that makes his own heart tick, it`s hard not to catch his feverish bug for all things Beatles inspired and updates the unique down under 12 stringed pop DM3, Someloves, Orange Humble band and so many other great bands. modern, updated power pop to usher in a new millenium.

"4 1/2 stars..Sometimes an album comes along, seemingly out of nowhere, and hits you straight in the heart. This is one of those albums. Filled with a warmth and depth unexplored in the current music scene, Aussie musician Michael Carpenter writes from the soul and expertly translates his feelings into songs. This isn`t just an album to listen to, it`s an album to experience. "Thinking About You" is probably one of the greatest songs to emerge in the last two decades and sounds exactly like what you`d expect Neil Finn to come up with had he been a member of the Beach Boys during the "Surfs Up" sessions. And that is what makes Carpenter so great: he`s able to take such different influences and combine them, then infuse them with a knowing innocence, creating a sound that is pure and warm. Being the expert producer and multi-instrumentalist that he is, Carpenter takes his very personal musical vision and allows the listener to step inside. Acoustic guitars bounce off of electric guitars, harmonies dance around your head, and melodies hang-glide through your mind. There`s a joy that jumps out of this album, be it on the touching "She Dreams" or the joyous "Love Is Like...." There are echos of the Beatles, Beach Boys, and the Finn Brothers within the laser grooves here, but it belongs entirely to Carpenter himself. To paraphrase Carpenter, this is most certainly "the real thing.""-AMG. She Dreams - mp3