Tuesdays Tunes

This is the first instalment of the "Tuesday Tunes" and will be doing old and new music that I come across or am told about.

So this week I have picked the new record by Lifehouse to review "Smoke & Mirrors"  As I am writing this review I am listening to the record for the first time, since I like to be caught in the moment and write what I really feel insted of having to think of how I felt of the song later.  This radio friendly band is from the Los Angeles area and has been putting out music for the past 10 years.  

Ok enough of the back story, let get into it. 

The record starts out with the acoustic/rock song "All In"  that, to be honest, sounds like alot like the other Lifehouse songs but I'm not knocking it because thats what Lifehouse does best.  The chord pregressions are simple and obviouse but will give you a huge smile if you are in love or like the thought of being in love.  "Halfway Gone" is the single off the record and to me is one of the weakest songs lyricaly and musicaly on the album by far.  I am a sucker for acoustic love songs so of course I am going to have to say that "From Where You Are" is one of my favorite songs on this release.  I was kinda shocked that Lifehouse pulled a OneRepublic with adding beats like a R&B song on two of there tracks.  "Its Is What It Is" has piano in it so it sounds rather nice with the beat but "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" is my least favorite track because it sounds like they are trying to go Madonna on us.  I was shocked to hear a little bit of blues on the record, on the bridge of "Nerve Damage" is just something you might hear John Mayer play.  This might... no, this is the high point of the record for me since that was something I was not expecting at all from Lifehouse.

Summation: 3/5 because out of a 12 track record not even half are decent and even more out of the 45 minute record only 30 seconds of it I keep playing over and over again...

Next week I will be reviewing Sixteen Horsepower's record "Folklore" 

-Hemingway