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MP3 The Sour Mournings - Whirlpool
13 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Modern Rock, POP: Beatles-pop
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RocknWorld 2005:
As refreshing as a morning mountain breeze, Dave Reed weaves sugar-sweet guitar hooks with subtle yet effective beds of electronic loops, blips, and bleeps, capturing aural, mini-symphonies and freezing them in your mind''s music box forever. I''m still humming the climatic themes from "Sea of Grey", with lyrics such as ''so you''ll swirl away, across a sea of grey, whatever cares may lay, across your path this day'', and ''right here I will wait for you, as the years fly by so true, as the sun sets without you, right here I will wait for you'', in the sullen, gloomy "Vanity", which has Dave singing about relationships that you can''t seem to let go.
In the end, Whirlpool resonates with an invigorating sound that leaves a smile on your face and a zip in your step. Dave Reed has an instant hit with this album. Raise your glass and pledge a toast to The Sour Mournings. This is the kind of stuff that will be left standing after the metal/rap and hip-hop/grunge/new metal psychobabble gets blown away in the aftershock and meltdown of the inevitable nuclear blast to corporate radio.
Alternative Rock Review, 2005
''Whirlpool'' is a disc full of idiosyncratic songs that are immediately appealing, using little flourishes of strings and keyboards to add likable charm. The height of such atmosphere creating is the tasteful use of strings on ''Pink Guitars And Stars Like Mistletoe'' giving the song an expressive and emotional quality. One of the album''s standout tracks ''SugarCane'' doesn''t just rely on atmosphere, effort has been put into memorable hooks with its well placed piano line and well-thought out song structure. Another highlight that makes itself known after a few listens is the woozy ''Likely Story'' which owes an obvious debt to The Beatles in the melody department, something most bands are indebted to. Other moments of interest include the choice "female groan" samples that open ''Say Sabrina'' and the haunting backing vocal from ''Comatose''. Whirlpool is clearly a deeply personal outlay of emotions, each song dripping in open-for-interpretation lyrics and dense non-cluttered layering of sounds, as if ''Abbey Road'' was used for inspiration. Definitely an album to play when in a good-natured state of mind.
Smother, 2005
If you could imagine Belly being more heavy on the distortion pedal at times while still retaining all of those majestic melodies, than you''d have a good inkling of where to start the comparisons. A welcome alternative (excuse the pun) to the plethora of "The" bands that have plagued their way into the arteries of mainstream radio
https://www.tradebit.com, Awards 2005
Track of the Day on April 8, 2005 in Alternative Rock
Best Drums in Alternative Rock, week of March 28, 2005
Best Production, Alternative Rock, week of March 28, 2005
Grooviest Rhythm in Alternative Rock, week of April 4, 2005
Best Keyboards in Alternative Rock, week of March 28, 2005
Best Beat in Alternative Rock, week of March 28, 2005
Best Mood in Alternative Rock, week of March 28, 2005
Grooviest Rhythm Alternative Rock, week of March 28, 2005
Best Beat in Alternative Rock, week of March 28, 2005
Whirlpool was co-produced and mixed by Bruce A. Miller, known for working with various artists including Dave Matthews, Aretha Franklin, and Mariah Carey. An additional track was mixed by Ken Lewis known for working with the Beastie Boys, Lenny Kravitz, and Mary J. Blige.
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