So this starts with a nice whispy 70’s style acoustic chord progression and some tasteful lead guitar when suddenly there’s a singer who’s somehow managed to find himself at the bottom of a deep crevasse and I want to throw him a caribiner and a rope. Dude, there’s reverb and then there’s singing from atop a Mayan temple into a canyon. The pre chorus has a really nice melody reminiscent of 60’s psychedelic country that goes smoothly into a Shins type chorus.

An obviously good lead guitarist is an asset and the jazzy solo in the middle works but the noodling between every phrase in the verse is like that slab of pasty bun in the middle of my otherwise delicious big mac. The singer has a slightly frail voice which does not detract but trying to make it sound like Thor is sending us proclamations from Asgard might be the wrong way to go.

I didn’t mind this tune though and would like to hear more.

--Sally

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Pop - Favorite Blue (mp3)

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