New Live single
Jamie Kohns on January 6th, 2006
I just noticed that there’s a new single from Live out today. It’s called The River, and is the first release from the forthcoming album Songs From Black Mountain (the band’s first since signing with Epic). The single itself sounds a lot more like the bands earlier work on Mental Jewelry than that of more recent albums. Mental Jewelry has a funky, driven sound to it, with more of a trend towards hard rock in Throwing Copper, and then sucessively heavier albums after that. The River starts out with a flanged acoustic guitar (fire that producer)and a straight-forward rhythm section. The song basically follows the Live formula for a sucessfull ballad (Lightning Crashes, Turn My Head, Overcome), keeping mostly to an acoustic feel through the song. I’ll always love Live for giving me Mental Jewelry and Throwing Copper, but since those albums, Ed Kowalczyk’s lyric writing has grown weaker, as he stretches for methaphors and rhymes that fit into the music.
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