RSSReview: Love and Theft – World Wide Open
September 5, 2009
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I mentioned the new group Love and Theft in the Country Corral on August 22. I finally received my copy of the CD this week! I sat down and gave it a listen. Here is what I think of the songs on the disc. I’m more of a lyrics person, so the strength of lyrics has a lot of weight on the ratings.
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World Wide Open | Not a bad song, per se, but probably not the best song to put in the #1 track of a debut album. Theme of the song is which road to travel down (which life choice to make). |
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Runaway | I absolutely LOVE this song. I haven’t been able to get it out of my head for weeks. From a lyrics perspective, I’m a sucker for the “get out of town and make a new life for myself”. The harmonies and instrumental strength really make the song stand out. My scale only goes up to 5, but I wanted to give this song at least a 6. |
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Dancing in Circles | The songs asks why people can’t get along, when we are all born brothers and sisters (in Christ). |
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It’s Up to You | The narrator is warning a second person that their destructive actions are likely to cause broken friendships in near future. |
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You To Miss | This is a story of love lost. It doesn’t seem to have the instrumental strength of some of the other songs. |
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Can’t Go Back | Another song with strong instrumental aspects and harmonies. |
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Don’t Wake Me | A tale of newfound love – don’t wake me from the dream. |
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Freedom | The first half of the song is considerably better than the second half (which is still pretty good). Is freedom a good thing or a bad thing? |
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Slow Down | In contrast to the songs which have the narrator racing off into new directions (Runaway and World Wide Open), this song begs to slow things down a bit. |
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Me Without You | A solid song with the theme of “you complete me” |
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Drowning | The songs has the theme of “I’m drowning without you”. I really like some of the harmonies – they pushing the song’s rating up by a full Cheri. |
| Album grade: This album has a number of 2 Cheri and 3 Cheri songs. However, I really like the top end songs (particularly Runaway) and the fact that this is a debut album make me a bit of an easier grader and allows me to award 4 Cheris. I see a lot of upside potential for this group. Perhaps their next album will be achieve a coveted 5 Cheri rating.
Love and Theft is made up of Brian Bandas, Eric Gunderson, and Stephen Barker Liles. |
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