Knautalis – Never Forget Me
Genre: Classic Rock
There are plenty of vices just waiting to take up real estate in your mind as you’re growing up. The fact that you are, hopefully, about to earn an income only helps develop these nasty habits. All matters of chemicals, bad food, or dubious love interests are all waiting for your attention and for your cash.
Acquiring a record collection is arguably just as expensive and time-consuming. But, provided you don’t mix this vice with the others, it is bound to affect your life in quite a different way. No, it’s unlikely it will ever loosen its grip on you. It may, however, make you want to make rock yourself, develop your music skills, and grow as an artist. As far as vices go, that’s not too bad.
Knautalis is an artist obsessed with classic rock when a singer hoping for a career had no choice but to be great. “Never Forget Me” echoes the arena-rock-pleasing tunes of 1970s and 1980s rock. The singing is, naturally, the focal point with a technique that will remind listeners of Ian Gillan, David Coverdale, or even Paul Di’Anno. Turns out that record collecting is not such a terrible thing to get addicted to after all.
The Muster Point Project – Grub Street
Genre: Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock
There’s so much heartbreak contained across most of the truly great pop songs in history that songwriters who’ve been passed over by misery resulting from matters of the heart have to feel that they have been cheated.
It’s not only that they haven’t been properly hurt. The fact is that once in front of an audience, listeners will most likely demand that they see their scars. Telling tales of abundance and happiness may impress your parents but not a paying audience. No, they want to hear you’ve struggled and how you’re looking to overcome it. Or, just as well, if you don’t plan on overcoming your troubles any time soon, audiences will feel enough sympathy to stick around.
There’s a lot going on in the world that The Muster Point Project builds on “Grub Street.” Like a surreal, late 60s Dylan composition, this world is inhabited by many characters, each full of sorrow and unaware of the problems that all others are going through. With the vocals and lyrics being the main focus of the song, the tune is accompanied by Peter Buck-like acoustic picking. It works to help us to believe that once in front of an audience, the songwriter behind The Muster Point Project moniker will have plenty of tales of woe to tell.
