Garrett Mason
Love & Sound
(Soul in Sound)
The second release from Garrett Mason reminds you that some musicians tighten the screws on themselves. Whether cranking it out to overcome crappy sound in the club or, as is the case on Love & Sound, losing the compression and other tools that clean upthe sound in studio and letting it all hang out and loose, Mason follows his gut and takes risks. Sure, lyrics are largely throwaway (occasionally cliche) but the voice is lithe and soulful. There’s intermittent reliance on overused phrasing (“Pink Flamingos” is a patchwork of styles, most notably Stevie Ray Vaughan on “Scuttle Buttin'”), but the overall screws-loose approach makes a deep impression. —Sean Flinn
This article appears in Oct 2-8, 2008.
I think he spends too much time coming up with inaccurate comparisons or listening to knitted indy crooners in coffee shops city wide to go to Bearly’s. People who like good music go to Bearly’s.
Wow. We’ve got the brain trust commenting up here tonight. I think punching a reviewer at a local bar is the smartest rebuttal to a review I’ve ever heard. Duh.
Awfully misleading review for one of the best blues/soul albums of our time. Garrett is out of this world.