Ole Salt “Loves You”
Recently, I’ve been downloading and listening to music like crazy from Band Camp. This is a review of a group of songs by the same band I got from Band Camp- usually it constitutes an EP. This is a song-by-song review and it is never to exceed six songs. At the end, I will tell you the “Recommended Downloading Level”, which means whether or not I think you should spend your time downloading these songs. It’s on a scale from 1 to 5, 5 meaning that you should stop reading my review and download these songs immediately and 1 meaning that if you even think about downloading these songs your computer will be infected with a horrific bad music virus. Enjoy.
<1> “Eye Seeing Blues” – We open with some banjo and then what kind of resembles a jug band in the background. It’s kind of funny I’m reviewing this after watching the first season of “The Muppet Show” because there is a lot of this kind of music on there. But they seem to be adding in some horns, which is a nice touch. They still have that general feeling, especially with the vocals, that you’d expect from a band that has a banjo as their lead instrument. Whatever people have dubbed the sound of Mumford and Sons, The Decemberists, etc., I’m going to wait for someone to say it’s that sound mixed with ska because of the horns. Ska-folk? Is that workable? I don’t know, but this is very far from the name ska.
<2> “Everything is Beautiful” – No, it’s not!
<3> “Twirling Thumbs” – This starts with some Blue Oyster Cult type guitar riffs. It also has some resemblance to The Doors. It’s not like the first or second songs, both of which were different in their own rights, at all.
<4> “New Day” – This begins like a slower Doors song, but then kicks into this faster guitar riff and pounding drums that are not really like The Doors at all. It has a definite nice classic rock vibe to it.
<5> “Something, Somewhere” – We open with guitar chords that remind me of Counting Crows, and then we kick into something between Cream and Zeppelin. The bass is kind of all over the place here.
<6> “Far” – This starts off a bit slower, but who needs to continue reviewing it at this point. I’m sold on this band.
These six songs are available for free downloading on the band’s Band Camp site. At first, I thought they’d be mellower and just all around slower because of the first song. My initial impression was wrong, because this band does in fact rock. So, don’t let the first song fool you and listen to all six of these songs before writing them off-- especially if you like ROCK.
Recommended Downloading Level: 3.5/5
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