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[johnny9fingers]

Impassioned, slightly pompous, I suppose, and some of the things that pop music is all about:

www.thewaits.co.uk/heads_and_hearts.html

There are some other pretty good songs on the site too:

www.thewaits.co.uk/such_sweet_sorrow.html

Though the similarity to the first one is....obvious. But there's a quality to the harmonic and melodic imagination that is at least appealing in it's ability to do both surprise, and convince that slightly-more-than-ordinarily 'difficult' changes can constitute a musical argument comprehensible to the non-expert listener.

Now if it was only coupled with a wry self-reflectory wit, and I'd back it all the way. Earnestness is all very well, but....

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[ankh156.livejournal.com]

Fantastic sound, but rather too serious I fear.

I've been listening to Tin Hat. Exceptional !

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

I thought so too.
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