Big Weather – Big Weather
There’s a good chance that if you go out this very moment, purchase a musical instrument and, regardless of your skill level, opt to start a band, you will have made the biggest decision of your life. In fact, you’ll always remember it.
There are no ifs and buts here. It won’t be something to hold onto in the absence of having become president of the country or the director of some fancy bank. If there’s one thing that ties musicians together, it’s that this is the best thing in their lives.
So, since you’re going to need some tunes to properly call it “a band,” you might as well sing about the things that truly matter to you. The alternative is to seek something trendy and, in this way, you’ll be embarrassed for all eternity. Listening to Big Weather, you get the idea that the band’s used its diary as a source of inspiration.
It’s a big move to name your single the same as your band. It’s a power play that says: “Listen to this and notice me for everything that I am!” Big Weather’s brand of laid-back, melancholy folk-rock lets us know that they’re the kind of people who go for a good book read out when it’s raining. That’s enough to draw in people who are the same.
Zach Angeloni – Eileen
The great artists have hard work to do and great, mighty themes that they must tackle. They need to talk about the meaning of life, prove or disprove the existence of God, and rage against the human instinct for violence.
However, perhaps, the most important of modern artists, those wielding a guitar and tying rhymes to chord sequences, can’t very much do that. At least, they can’t go straight to those topics. They’d just look ridiculous.
Nah, instead, the smartest of the bunch just make you hear about life and people as they are, and let you draw your own conclusions. The best ones hide big truths in small gift boxes, as Zach Angeloni does.
The first thing you notice about Zach Angeloni is that his music is made on the strength of his beautiful singing voice and a laid-back, Jack Johnson-like pop-folk sound. But the other thing is the tenderness that Angeloni brings to his performance on “Eileen” as he sings about regular people and ordinary days. Makes it feel almost supernatural.
