SORRYNOTSORRY – I’ve seen a lot
If you owned a music store back in the 1970s and you put a vinyl titled “Grocery Store Sounds” in the very centre of the store, it would get noticed and, likely, a few people would pick it up. Thinking of selling bird noises on an LP? Odds are that you could sell that as well. Frank Zappa records? Sure, they’re not good, but they’re weird enough to move a few copies.
It was easy to stand out! And contrary to popular belief, this isn’t solely due to the fact that there was simply far less music available. Sure, there’s an inflation of songs being released daily. But the vast majority of them adhere to a certain pattern. Most musicians wanting to make it will choose a format that’s been proven to work and try to master it.
It takes guts and a certain romance for times gone by to try and craft music in a unique way. This is what SORRYNOTSORRY does on “I’ve seen a lot,” but subtly enough so that casual listeners will hear no reason why they should retreat in fear. No, this is still a mysterious-sounding dream pop record. But it is the arrangement, the production choices and, especially, the vocal delivery that makes this stand out, that make you understand that the group is looking for the thing that will move them away from the format, not towards it.
Cammie Beverly – Kiss of the Moon
A lot of people don’t quite feel like the protagonist of their own lives. And, that makes make them either miserable, or dedicated to living a boring, unfulfiling existence.
Maybe it’s their own lack of self-belief that gets them. Maybe they simply cannot imagine a scriptwriter standing around a table and coming up with good enough stories that could involve them.
On the other hand, the people who’ve convinced their brains that their daily activities feel just like a movie picture live an exciting, albeit often dangerous, existence. They meet the dangers and the risks head-on. What’s a good motion picture without a bit of conflict?
If you need help in that department, Cammie Beverly’s “Kiss of the Moon” is likely to provide it. The music feels made to accompany one of those mysterious, exciting movies. And the soft, personal touch makes you feel that it is intended specifically for you and for your story. It’s you that it’s all happening to you, and everything else is just spinning, and everything else merely exists in relation to your tale. That is, at least, what “Kiss of the Moon” is likely to convince you of, and why wouldn’t someone write a story about you?
