timewellspent
(Parasol)
www.parasol.com
Before I begin to gush and fawn over this fantastic
album, you need to read this disclaimer –
timewellspent consists of Christopher Moll and Casey
Fundaro, the latter being the driving force behind Fufkin.com, for whom I also
happen to be a regular contributor,
Allright now that’s out of the way…I shall
digress again.
You know, the beauty of our beloved art-form is
simply this – we are not ashamed or blinkered to believe that there is
anything new under the sun (to paraphrase scripture) – everything in modern
music has a root in the past. Reference points and influences are inevitable,
it’s not the form it’s the substance – the talent and skill lies in what
you do with the tools every musician and songwriter shares with the weight of
40-plus years of great rock and pop music.
Messrs Fundaro and Moll – with the aid of David
Rubenstein, Jason Knapfel, Mike Federline and significantly, Thom (Pernice
Brothers) Monahan on the mixing boards – have distilled the heady inspiration
of 60s atmospheric baroque/chamber soft-country-folk-pop to deliver a stunning
collection of songs that would sit comfortably with the discerning pop
listener’s library of Burt Bacharach, Beach Boys (circa Pet Sounds and
beyond), psychedelic Beatles, Syd Barrett, Zombies, Left Banke, ELO, Todd
Rundgren, Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, Beck, American Music Club, High
Llamas, Mojave 3 and yes, Pernice Brothers.
Suffice to say that fans of these great artists will find timespentwell an appealing proposition as Fundaro/Moll have succeeded at infusing their exquisite creations with the elements that they no doubt love and I’ll wager, you’ll have no problem being enamored with. A+ www.timewellspentmusic.com