Justin Klump - Something for September EP
Release Date.: 02.18.2007
Street Date..: 00.00.0000
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Pop
Playtime.....: 36:15 min
Grabber......: EAC
Encoder......: Lame 3.97
Quality......: V2 --vbr-new
Rippers Notes:
Hard to believe this kid's only 23 years old. This is
a sharp debut, with solid production, intelligent
lyrics, and a strong, scrappy vocal that flows upward
into some sweet high notes and infuses sincerity into
every yearning track.
The lyrics are the most noticeable aspect of KlumpÆs
songwriting. The opening track, "Suspicion," is a
good example. "So hard to reconcile all these bitter
feelings toward her when she said herself she wasnÆt
sure change was what she wanted. That just magnified
her fears." I'd put that in stanza form, but I'm not
sure where to break the lines. The singing is as
urgent and straightforward as the words, but they
avoid being overbearing. These songs are deeply
emotional without crossing the line into acoustic emo
territory.
The musicianship is solid, with warm acoustic guitar
alternating with melancholy piano playing as the
driving sound behind each track. The standout is the
hypnotic, seven-minute piano ballad "Painter's Son"
that closes the EP. It's heartache of a song about an
artist yearning for a woman he can't have. Klump
looks into people's hearts and souls, and he manages
to put some of the most conflicting feelings into
words.
The only suggestion I can make is that "Painter's
Son" needs to be put into the middle of the song
order to break up the mood a bit. The first half of
the EP has pretty much the same tempo and feel. When
I first played this, I was cooking dinner while it
played in the background, and after a while it
occurred to me that I'd been hearing the same song
for the past 20 minutes. Putting the very different
"Painter's Son'" in the middle would give the
listener a chance to pause and breathe, and putting
one of the other tracks on the end would let the EP
finish on an uptempo note. Just a suggestion for an
otherwise very impressive debut by a young artist who
youÆd swear had been around the block a few more
times than he has.
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Tracklist:
01 - Suspicion [04:29]
02 - Not Your Own [04:27]
03 - Actually [04:39]
04 - Flood [05:07]
05 - Silhouette [05:38]
06 - Painter's Son [07:55]
07 - Nothing Left [04:00]
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