Not NEARLY enough of this kind of music out there
Mike | Columbus, Ohio United States | 11/04/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
""I've got a vague sense of something surreal and I can't feel the pain..."
And there's no pain after buying this album. Its refreshingly simple and pure in production and each song is inspired with lyrics told by an obvious and easy story-teller. Buy this album now before the emo-kid down the street does something else stupid and makes you feel bad for humanity all over again. Please!
The whole of this album is written as if Dan has just emerged from a very long and dark existential crisis - but this wasn't some passé exit from youth - whatever it was he's coming out of sounds like it really was hell, but he's in a better place now and just had to sing about it... So out came "Maybe I'll Fly."
And in some tracks (like "Alive") he sounds as if he still can't believe it himself. The above lyric is emblematic of a guy who has apparently found love (clearly to the unnamed woman in track 3 - "Addiction") but is still worried about the return of the comfortable nihilism of his previous life.
He feels good now and the music reflects that.
There isn't enough "positive" rock out there right now. In "Alive" he's earnestly exploring this new place and happy in the certainty of it. "Big City" tells us he's happy where he is without being corny - this track has hand-claps in it he's so happy and its still not corny! (I don't know how he did it either but its great).
There is not enough of this kind of music out there... There is not enough of this kind of rock out there!
Thanks Dan Beahm and The Invisible Three!"
Undiscovered Gem!!!
Jeff McCutcheon | Los Angeles, CA | 11/04/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Bought this last month on a whim... no regrets! I can't take this thing outta my cd-player."
Track Listings (6) - Disc #1