 Steve
Angel
"Hollywood" CD
B-Group
Music
Genres: pop/rock
Steve Angel
198 Speers Road, Suite 16
Oakville, ON
L6K 2E9
July 15 - 21 2002 |
Steve
Angel's Hollywood is a pure artifact of professional,
glossy pop-rock. Indie scenesters won't come near it with a ten
thousand-foot pole, but those seeking normal, inoffensive pop songs
will embrace it wholeheartedly. There are upbeat rockers
("Electric Car"), "emotional" sad songs
("Leave Me Standing"), and a whole plethora of other popular
music clichés. All around, this suffers from musical predictability
and not-so-great lyrics, which are both large problems, but don't
really interfere with the goals that Angel has set out to
achieve.
All things considered, Hollywood is not my type of album. I
assure you, it is by no means bad, but it suffers from a desire to fit
in to the mainstream scene, rather than experiment and find its own
musical voice. If you like the type of guy who lists his e-mail
address as fanmail@steveangel.com,
you'll like this. If you can't help but laugh at that type of
shameless self-promotion, perhaps you'd be better off avoiding Hollywood.
72%
Matt Shimmer [Vitals:
36 min 6 sec; 11 tracks; distributed by Amazon;
released 2001] |
