The Best Worst-Case Scenario
发行时间:2006-06-06
发行公司:Tooth & Nail
简介: 来自美国西雅图的Fair乐队的首张专辑。专辑的风格被归位于Alternative Rock。个人以为主场的嗓音还是比较细腻的。乐器的混合也是浑然天成的样子,与主唱的嗓音相得益彰,不会显得很突兀。很舒服的专辑。
by Stewart Mason
Christian indie rockers Fair are the new project by singer/songwriter Aaron Sprinkle, whose previous band, Poor Old Lu, and ongoing solo career are much beloved by folks on the somewhat edgier side of the CCM marketplace. Fundamentally, The Best Worst-Case Scenario is of a piece with Sprinkle's earlier work; the Seattle native has a distinctive vocal style -- a winsome, boyish tenor with just a hint of twang -- that's his most appealing attribute, and also one that would be difficult to downplay. But The Best Worst-Case Scenario lacks the emo-tinged heaviness and distortion of much of Sprinkle's earlier work. This album is filled with moody guitar pop songs not at all dissimilar to fellow artists of the Pacific Northwest like the Shins and the Decemberists, but with a more slickly commercial edge, as if Sprinkle was approaching this album with an ear toward the alterna-rock radio mainstream. This would also explain the considerably more oblique lyrical style on this album; songs like "The Attic" and "The Dumbfound Game" couch Sprinkle's spiritual side in lyrics so allegorical that listeners who don't know of his beliefs may well not be any wiser after they've heard them. More doctrinaire fans of Poor Old Lu or Aaron Sprinkle's solo albums might be somewhat put off as a result of these shifts toward the musical and lyrical mainstream, but the resulting album is melodically satisfying enough to make lyrical disagreements somewhat beside the point.
来自美国西雅图的Fair乐队的首张专辑。专辑的风格被归位于Alternative Rock。个人以为主场的嗓音还是比较细腻的。乐器的混合也是浑然天成的样子,与主唱的嗓音相得益彰,不会显得很突兀。很舒服的专辑。
by Stewart Mason
Christian indie rockers Fair are the new project by singer/songwriter Aaron Sprinkle, whose previous band, Poor Old Lu, and ongoing solo career are much beloved by folks on the somewhat edgier side of the CCM marketplace. Fundamentally, The Best Worst-Case Scenario is of a piece with Sprinkle's earlier work; the Seattle native has a distinctive vocal style -- a winsome, boyish tenor with just a hint of twang -- that's his most appealing attribute, and also one that would be difficult to downplay. But The Best Worst-Case Scenario lacks the emo-tinged heaviness and distortion of much of Sprinkle's earlier work. This album is filled with moody guitar pop songs not at all dissimilar to fellow artists of the Pacific Northwest like the Shins and the Decemberists, but with a more slickly commercial edge, as if Sprinkle was approaching this album with an ear toward the alterna-rock radio mainstream. This would also explain the considerably more oblique lyrical style on this album; songs like "The Attic" and "The Dumbfound Game" couch Sprinkle's spiritual side in lyrics so allegorical that listeners who don't know of his beliefs may well not be any wiser after they've heard them. More doctrinaire fans of Poor Old Lu or Aaron Sprinkle's solo albums might be somewhat put off as a result of these shifts toward the musical and lyrical mainstream, but the resulting album is melodically satisfying enough to make lyrical disagreements somewhat beside the point.