Artist: As Tall As Lions
Album: As Tall As Lions
Year: 2006
Dan Nigro is a heartbroken, soul-searching blues singer raised in the '90s and fronting an indie-pop band. Somehow, it works. Expect Dan to belt and croon his sleeved-heart off about lost loves in foreign locales, doubt, loss while his band plays along with pretty sounding instruments in well-crafted ballad. As Tall As Lions is immediately catchy, deep and powerful with a certain penchant for the dramatic. Your spirit will soar and drop along with Dan as he sings about losing his soul in "Stab City" or about during the rousing chorus of "Love, Love, Love (Love, Love)", a song in which the content is pretty obvious. It's pop music for the counterculture or indie music built for the pop crowd. However, with the smart songwriting and delivery, accessibility and Dan's powerhouse of a voice, it's pretty easy to make this album your own. Stand-outs are "Song For Luna" and "Ghost Of York", but this album is solid through and through. Personal favorite is probably "Milk And Honey", a song about a relationship falling apart after a miscarriage, or the stellar hidden track "A Soft Hum". Highly recommended.
Hear it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2fWHGa4r6s
Tomorrow is gonna be fun, fun, fun! I promise.
(I don't actually promise)
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