Though
I’ve reviewed Scammers before I must say I find it increasingly hard to
describe the sounds other than to tell you that it sounds like Scammers. The music on “A Song That Can Exist” is
somewhere between that of The Church and pop, as sometimes there are piano keys
or just other elements thrown in that make you think of a radio band such as
Phoenix.
Other
times the vocals can come out like Violent Femmes and there are musical gaps
where he is singing, but more just like talking over nothing and then the music
comes back. As much as you want to
believe that it is a combination of this and that, in reality it is just
something that Scammers has crafted and can now claim all his own. Throughout the various releases on various
labels I have never encountered bad music by Scammers and this is no exception
to that.
Whether
he is singing about the title of this cassette or being poor or just for
dishwashers, the lyrics have that storyteller quality as well that cannot be
overlooked. It is not exactly the same
as anyone else, as Scammers has certainly developed its own unique voice (Which
is true in both the lyrics and music), but it could be compared with that of a
Bob Dylan or Billy Joel style, though again it doesn’t really sound like either
of them specifically.
I find
myself enjoying and listening to just about every different type of music out
there, so it’s hard for me to say that there is something I feel like everyone
should listen to because so many of the styles vary. Within the last five cassettes I’ve listened
to, I’m sure that some people might like some of them and not others and that
is fine. But Scammers is the one that I
feel should unite us all. Scammers
truly is the voice of a generation.
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