By Jeanette
Angie is one of those totally unlikely to pigeonhole into a single genre, so it seems he is everlastingly writing outstanding music that no one ever hears, because he in truth doesn’t have a target audience. He’s likewise one of those with evenly strong sound/rhythm to his songs as lyrics; he isn’t tilted one way or another. His other albums are actually good, but this is the only album for which he had high production values, so for most it ends up being without doubt or question his best. If there isn’t at least one song on this album that speaks to you, well… you probably don’t like music very much. This album plainly oozes quality.
1. Green Into Gold (7/10): Good starter. Won’t blow you away, but has strong lyrics and have a tendancy to stick in your head. Unlike most of these songs, you’ll like this one more without delay as opposed to it growing on you.
2. Spaceship (10/10): This is the best song on the album, period. He hits notes I didn’t think humans could hit without enhancement in this song. Simply amazing.
3. Hush (8.5/10): If this was never a single, it should’ve been.
4. Cry (9.5/10): Faith Hill won a Grammy for her cover of this song, and Angie’s introductory version is rather a bit better. What does that tell you?
5. Third Time Around (8/10): This song doesn’t actually know if it’s country or pop. If you like pop this might get you fascinated in country, and vice versa. You’ll in all probability skip past it the firstborn play-through, but it grows on you.
6. Free Man (9/10): One of Angie’s personal favorites, and I may see why. You may gloss over it the introductory couple times through the album, but once you give it a probability you’ll wonder how you missed it.
7. Gravity (8/10): One of the more emotional, and pop-ish songs on the album. Very clean sound, somewhat less lyrically complex than most of the other songs.
8. Beautiful (9/10): Maybe the best lyrics on the album. One of the top few tracks.
9. Memphis City Rain (7/10): Vocal-heavy, slow, relaxing song. Deceptively simple. You could meditate to this.
10. Swell (8/10): More particularly strong lyrics, with an exceedingly in-your face chorus. Has a very odd flow/feel that doesn’t seem like it must sound good, but you’ll keep playing it again anyway.
11. It’s Alright (5.5/10): Strange. Not terrible, but this song doesn’t in truth seem to recognise what it’s attempting to do.
12. Wonderland (8/10): This song serves as his proof of what a great singer he is, as he is accompanied for the most portion by an acoustic guitar and violin only, and both are in the background supporting his voice, rather than the other way around. He used a live version of this song for this album, too, and the fact that he may get this kind of sound live makes it all the more impressive.
18. The American (8.5/10): Talk when it comes to a worth-it bonus track… this song is merely very strong in each aspect.
Yeah yeah, a large total of high ratings, I know. But like I said, this is the firmest overall album I’ve ever heard. “It’s Alright” is in all likelihood the only song I don’t consider to be a very strong track. Pick this one up, no matter what kind of music you listen to. Trust me.
7 of 7 persons found the following review helpful.
When I die and go to heaven, I suppose to listen Angie’s voice
By Jennifer D. Cunningham
This album is a breathtaking piece of work that showcases one of the most gifted artists I have heard in years. There are not sufficient superlatives in my vocabulary to praise Angie and his album. Like others, I heard Spaceship on my local radio station and proceeded to find out the name behind the voice. When I purchased the album, I thought it was the best cash I had ever expended on a CD. Songs like Wonderland, Hush, and The American made my soul ache, and I love the raw sounds of Gravity, Free Man, and Swell. I have to stop myself from singing along so I may just listen to Angie’s divine voice. Please, this man and his music need to be heard. And having met him and seen him carry out live, I recognise that he veritably deserves each word of praise he receives. Buy this album now.
6 of 6 humans found the following review helpful.
Take A Piece of The Sky..and give it to Angie.
By A
I work in the music industry, and it’s not each and everyday that I’m wowed by a new artist. I introductory became conscious of Angie Aparo after somebody suggested that I listen to “Spaceship,” his primary single. I loved the song – it was attentiongetting and dissimilar – but it by no means prepared me for what the rest of the CD was like.
I saw Angie carry out at three successive Matchbox Twenty shows for the duration of their recent promo tour, and was lucky sufficient to meet him as well. He’s one of the nicest men I’ve ever met and one of the best performers I’ve seen. Playing for a crowd that had largely not yet heard of him, he had every one in awe and after each show I heard major positive buzzing with regards to him.
“The American” is a CD full of pretty music. “Spaceship” is, in my opinion, the weakest cut off of the record. Slipping into Angie’s voice is like climbing under the covers with your favored person. The songs are diverse but all have a dark, edgy sound that is complimented perfectly by Angie’s pretty voice. It’s hard to choose favorites from a CD chock-full of stand-outs, but the tunes that I find myself repeating even more than the others are “Cry,” “Wonderland,” “Hush,” “Gravity,” and the record’s title track.
“Cry,” a song for every one who has ever been hurt in love, was my instant favored after seeing Angie carry out live. Once I got the CD, I fell in love with the others, most specially “Wonderland,” a majestically pretty ode to Aparo’s daughter that must have the world swooning.
Bottom line – Angie Aparo is going to be a classic. He’s phenomenal, and each self-respecting music-lover will have to have this CD in their collection.
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