"Something More" - Slideshow Freak
This song, on the other hand, had me at hello, pretty much. A simple arpeggio, some electro-tinkling, some smooth keyboard vamping, then, boom--"Something More" begins right in its sweet spot, with its full-out, neo-glam-rock chorus. Somehow that's really all it needs. Yes, there are verses in between and surely they kind of have to be there--a song can't be all chorus, can it?--but you'll be hard-pressed afterwards to remember exactly what they sounded like. I'm thinking you'll be equally hard-pressed to dislodge the chorus from your head, not least for the way its swinging, backbeat-driven melody offers up pronouncements as big and dauntless as its sound: "It takes a better man than me/To save a broken heart"; "I spend my life on my back/But never see the stars"; et al.
Slideshow Freak is another one of those "not a band, just a guy" acts made possible by 21st-century technology, musical know-how, and a lot of time on one's hands. The guy this time is one Jamie Wright, who was born and raised in the UK but appears to be living in Florida now. "Something More" is the lead track to the debut Slideshow Freak EP, We Should Swing, which was released in July on Filthy Little Angels Records. Thanks to the typically excellent Low Slung Podcast for the head's up. MP3 via Filthy Little Angels. Note that you can download all six songs from the EP on the FLA site.
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Many thanks, you can now download all of my music for Free @ last fm.com
. thanks again,
Jamie
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