| Bronze Radio Return / Old Time Speaker |
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| Album: | Old Time Speaker | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Bronze Radio Return | Added: | Apr 2010 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-05-02 | Pull Date: | 2010-07-04 |
| Week Ending: | Jul 4 | Jun 6 | May 30 | May 23 | May 16 | May 9 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 18, 2014: | The Alarm Clock It's Ok Now | 4. | Jul 23, 2010: | Quasi Music Therapy w/ Dr. Richard Dickow Jr. Digital Love | |
| 2. | Dec 30, 2011: | UpDownUnderStairs It's Ok Now | 5. | Jul 20, 2010: | Quasi Music Therapy Digital Love | |
| 3. | Aug 20, 2010: | Quasi Music Therapy Digital Love | 6. | Jul 16, 2010: | Quasi Music Therapy Digital Love |
| Album Review |
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| Trent Kay Reviewed 2010-04-21 | ||
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There was a (mercifully brief) time when soul had its day (or is that ‘way’) with the Top 40 charts -- Rob Thomas went solo, that song Everlast did with Santana was huge, the girl I liked ditched me to go see Macy fucking Gray play to a huge arena crowd with the most obnoxious boy (fag, as it turned out) in our grade... This record is stuck in that era, and god bless it. Pop-influenced bayou rock, if you’ll have it. Some tracks are more or less swampy / rocky / swingy than others. Unassuming verses and almost impossibly catchy choruses. Exceedingly competent melody lines throughout, and rasp-bucket NOLA vocals that belong to some white guy from Belfast, Maine. Well what can I say, the kid’s got soul. Comparable, I suppose, to the likes of Maroon 5, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, Jack Johnson, et al, but I actually like it, so. It’s fitting that the gravelly male voice sounds, hilariously, quite a bit like Macy Gray. try: 1, 2, 3, 6 no FCCs *1. ~28 second intro. uptempo, driving song about lovin’ the analog. a cooker. bruce hornsby wishes he wrote this. the chorus completely kills. *2. supa-cool slinkster. kicks off in right jack johnson style -- stripped-down up-stroke (yeah, wow) island acoustic guitar. enter awesome chorus harmonies, understated clonker piano. really cool vocal stylings -- i like how he sings “wire” and “digital”. “i’m an analog man with a digital case of you”. *3. on the sinister side. hard-hitting (on the 2, on the 4!) drums and deep twang guitar. starts off uneventful, but wait for the awesome down-and-dirty chorus. 4. sweet slow acoustic. somewhat lush chorus. “it s’alllright, it’s okaaayy...” almost too cute for me. 5. train-track rhythm. happy, upbeat. sounds an awful lot like brighter built to spill. *6. very relaxed, easy flow on this one. pretty, bloomy, builder sound. 7. quick picked guitar. nice descending melody. deep steamroll/chug backbeat. d’aww: “you’ve kept me wondering if it’s worth wondering”. 8. slowww slink. deep chord-based piano. verrry bluesy. 9. tocky acoustic and light keys. drums in for a straight bop beat. seems to tell a fable/story. has a camp song singalong chorus. ends on a stomper/clapper vamp. 10. easy strummed acoustic. pretty, melodic, spare enough ingredients. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Lo-Fi | 6. | Wolves | |||
| 2. | Digital Love | 7. | Worth Wondering | |||
| 3. | It's Ok Now | 8. | Cannonball | |||
| 4. | Strawberry Hill | 9. | Pullin' On The Reins | |||
| 5. | Play It On Me | 10. | Stone's Throw Away |