Drew & The Medicinal Pen - "dream, dream, fail, repeat"
Having seen Drew Hawthorne play solo before at a Folk You! show and being blown away by his performance, I had high expectations of this new EP by him (under his largely one man band name of Drew & The Medicinal Pen), and I am happy to say I was not let down. At times reminding me of Rhett Miller's solo albums, "dream, dream, fail, repeat", has an interesting mix of upbeat folk-rock songs, that are more rock then they are folk, and some mellower songs, each song leading in and out of one another in a perfectly entwined lucid dream-like musical landscape. But what's hard to miss about this album is it's infectiousness. "Hole in my sail" includes a clap along beat that is hard to not clap along to, "a city was born" contains a catchy little whistling part that I found myself whistling along to, and other songs contain sing along parts like "oh-oh-oo-oh", and "ba-ba-ba".
www.myspace.com/drewhawthorne
Having seen Drew Hawthorne play solo before at a Folk You! show and being blown away by his performance, I had high expectations of this new EP by him (under his largely one man band name of Drew & The Medicinal Pen), and I am happy to say I was not let down. At times reminding me of Rhett Miller's solo albums, "dream, dream, fail, repeat", has an interesting mix of upbeat folk-rock songs, that are more rock then they are folk, and some mellower songs, each song leading in and out of one another in a perfectly entwined lucid dream-like musical landscape. But what's hard to miss about this album is it's infectiousness. "Hole in my sail" includes a clap along beat that is hard to not clap along to, "a city was born" contains a catchy little whistling part that I found myself whistling along to, and other songs contain sing along parts like "oh-oh-oo-oh", and "ba-ba-ba".
www.myspace.com/drewhawthorne