Matt Mays & El Torpedo / Matt Mays & El Torpedo – CD (Used)

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Author: Matt Mays

Brand: WACR2

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• Matt Mays & El Torpedo

Release Date: 29-03-2005

Details: Product DescriptionThe second full-length from Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Mays and his band El Torpedo. Winner of Galaxie’s Rising Star Award at NXNE 2003, twenty-four-year-old singer-songwriter, guitarist and avid surfer Matt Mays steps into the limelight again with his band El Torpedo. 2005.Amazon.caMix one part Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, a dash of Tom Petty, and add a little Sam Roberts to get just a sense of what Matt Mays & El Torpedo have to bring to your ears. Countryfied rock straight outta Nova Scotia, the group’s sound is both timeless and, to a certain degree, timely as well. With the success of Sarah Harmer, Ron Sexsmith and the aforementioned Roberts, acoustic guitars, warm vocals and strong south-inflected melodies still hold a high place on the Canadian charts. There are many solid, driving-down-the-dusty-road-in-an-old-convertible tracks on this disc; producer Don Smith (Tom Petty, U2, Bob Dylan) knows how to give the band an open field and the space to cruise through it. The track « What Are We Gonna Do Come the Month of September » is a perfect example with its wonderfully expansive Hammond organ-infused groove. The seven-minute-plus track, peaking with a two minute, perfectly languid exit, allows the players their chance to express a mood, and the audience their chance to feel it, without being rushed by the confines of pops three-minute radio rule. Torontos Now Magazine recently named Mays « Canadas most promising roots rock tunesmith, » admittedly, the amazingly-talented Kathleen Edwards is also very deserving of that title, but as symmetry would have it, she joins Mays as co-vocalist on « The Plan », adding extra oomph to a track that deserves to be an outside-the-box radio hit this summertime. –Denise Sheppard

UPC: 762184054322

EAN: 0775020623422

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood