Friends, my most certain apology for being away for so long. My cat Merphis suffered an emotional trauma after a close run-in with a pastry truck when I was taking him to a Stockholm specialist in feline fibromyalgia. Merphis is ok but it was me which suffered some syndrome issues for which I have seen many doctors but am now okay. As it is a new year, I am reinvented as a writer again! So here I am!
This record is nice. It came to me some time ago and it's not exactly an easy record to put in any sort of type of box. There is overall the feel of relaxation to this. There are moments of cowboy wonderings and yearning for the perfect sunset perhaps. The sound of the album overall is amazing, very pleasing and everything in just its correct spot. Very beautiful, very calming, very nice. The equalisations and things are perfection in many respects as a soundtrack to a beautiful day.
The song for example to take is 'Back Around'. Now with Rich Bennett sings a woman as well and it is pleasant. There is also the sounds of the old west, reminding me of the days as a young wee in Norrköping at my pappap's yak farm slowly chewing on long stems of wheat and nodding along with the goats before milking time.
Then Rich Bennett throws a curve with a song called 'Wild Ride'. This is good! In some ways, this is very lively. Synthesizer bubbles a la Devo or maybe a light Depeche Mode but with Rich singing very much like Peter Murphy or perhaps Eric Avery's post Jane's Addiction album 'Deconstruction' which long time readers would know is a favorite, so nice job, Rich.
There is much whistling. Then there is a song called 'Peak' which is very oriental in sound, like entering a restaurant with raw fish or perhaps meat being cut at your table. The track is an adventure with interesting percussion accompanied by a Stereolab like breakdown and some ethnic 'oh's' to help close it out.
I believe 'Night Part 1' to be my favorite track on the album. Buoyed pleasant guitars with triangle and shoulders-left-to-right rocking rhythms. Just as the song begins to tease, a tremendous saxophone solo approaches and flows like a rose opening in the morning a la 'Kokomo' or perhaps 'The Heat Is On' and I am transformed to Margaritaville or perhaps the Hotel California.
It has been written that the luscious contours follow flowing lines. While I laugh at this and am not in the market for a new auto, if I were, I would want Rich Bennett's 'On Holiday' as the soundtrack for every test drive! It is just that smooth.
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