★★★★★
When you listen to a lot of music, it's easy to enter a state of sensory overload, a state where everything you hear, no matter how powerful, starts to sound like so much noise. All the rappers start saying the same things, all the riffs start sounding the same, and if you hear another electronic beat that sounds like OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ you may just start searching for the nearest sharp, pointy object to stick in your eye...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Accessibility. Important to all art, and as such, the subject of heated and never-ending debate. Are Shakespeare and "difficult" poetry somehow intrinsically better and more important because greater effort is needed to reveal all their qualities than exerted by the average listener grappling with the heady heights of Justin Timberlake's lyrics...
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2008-11-11
★★★★★
Tony Lucca has been slyly defying categorization for years. Indie artist? Most definitely; his early recordings, beginning with his 1997 debut Strong Words, Softly Spoken, was released via the internet. Singer/songwriter? Well sure, he won the L.A. Music Award in just that category in 2001. Yet Lucca doesn't fit comfortably in the current crop of artists from either genre. Canyon Songs, his second album for Rock Ridge Music, and a follow-up to 2004's Shotgun, further muddies the waters...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Accessibility. Important to all art, and as such, the subject of heated and never-ending debate. Are Shakespeare and "difficult" poetry somehow intrinsically better and more important because greater effort is needed to reveal all their qualities than exerted by the average listener grappling with the heady heights of Justin Timberlake's lyrics...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-08-03
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