EMERSON HART - Cigarettes & Gasoline

�4 stars. His 12-song debut disc is a cathartic journey and intimate lyrical portrait that includes irresistible, melodic songs all over. The music is a little softer than Tonics but that is not a problem. Just take alisten to songs like third out �If You�re Gonna Leave� with a monster refrain the single �I Wish The Best For You�, the soft an intimate �Green Hill Race For California� and the epic �When She Loves You. It is as I wrote a softer album than we�re used to with Tonic�s music, but for my personal taste it doesn�t matter one cent. It is his magnificent voice and the production signed Bob Rock that sets the tone together with a bunch of great written tunes.�-Melodic.net.

�Emerson Hart, frontman of mid-90s rock stalwarts Tonic, made his solo debut in 2007 with the release of Cigarettes & Gasoline. The album contains twelve tracks that run the gamut between power pop (�Run To,� �Devastation Hands�) and acoustic ballads (�Green Hills of California,� �Friend to a Stranger�). The aforementioned �Devastation Hands� contains one of those big hooks that firmly plants itself in your head and never leaves. Hart doesn�t stray far from what made his previous group so great; however, one can easily see that his music has matured a great deal. He sounds more weathered and world-weary now than he did then.�- InsulinFunk.� Magnificently produced, and with inspired arrangements ranging from rousing power ballads to luminescent acoustic pieces, infectious pop-flecked tracks to angular rockers. The music may be eclectic, but the memorable, introspective lyrics are this album's defining glory.�-AMG. Song #1 - mp3

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