Weinland News Review: Fensepost
Badman Records [CD, 2008]
Managing the day-to-day activities of one's life, especially when one is as busy as I am, can be quite a chore. It's difficult to stay on top of everything that must get done, from the career which took you nearly twenty years of education to reach, to making sure bills are paid on time, to maintaining a constant upkeep of your hobby—in this case, FensePost.
That being said, in the most strenuous of times, like now, in which time is short, this becomes increasingly difficult. Thank God for press releases.
Weinland is often likened to two artists and it is readily apparent in the songwriting style and the way frontman John Adam Weinland Shearer crafts his vocals. The good news is that the two artists are somewhat similar in nature to begin, which does not leave La Lamentor disjointed.
Part Sam Beam (Iron And Wine) and part Neil Young, Shearer's music maintains the light acoustics of these two beloved artists. Not surprisingly, when his vocals tilt toward Beam, he picks up a very Beam-ish slide guitar; the same is true for his Young-like songs, packed with a soft acoustic guitar loaded with powerful chord progressions.
Where "Sick As A Gun" and "The Devil In Me" have the craft of Beam, "Gold" pegs Young to a T. Despite two powerful and distinct influences, which are readily apparent in the first half of La Lamentor, Weinland molds the album into his own style toward the end with "All To Yourself" as a key highlight.
Managing the day-to-day activities of one's life, especially when one is as busy as I am, can be quite a chore. It's difficult to stay on top of everything that must get done, from the career which took you nearly twenty years of education to reach, to making sure bills are paid on time, to maintaining a constant upkeep of your hobby—in this case, FensePost.
That being said, in the most strenuous of times, like now, in which time is short, this becomes increasingly difficult. Thank God for press releases.
Weinland is often likened to two artists and it is readily apparent in the songwriting style and the way frontman John Adam Weinland Shearer crafts his vocals. The good news is that the two artists are somewhat similar in nature to begin, which does not leave La Lamentor disjointed.
Part Sam Beam (Iron And Wine) and part Neil Young, Shearer's music maintains the light acoustics of these two beloved artists. Not surprisingly, when his vocals tilt toward Beam, he picks up a very Beam-ish slide guitar; the same is true for his Young-like songs, packed with a soft acoustic guitar loaded with powerful chord progressions.
Where "Sick As A Gun" and "The Devil In Me" have the craft of Beam, "Gold" pegs Young to a T. Despite two powerful and distinct influences, which are readily apparent in the first half of La Lamentor, Weinland molds the album into his own style toward the end with "All To Yourself" as a key highlight.
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