It’s a winter day in LA which only means that it’s raining and everyone in the city is filling their Facebook and Twitter with either “OMG, people in LA suck at driving in the rain” or the ever so deep, “I love the rain, it gets me.” As for me, I’m just sitting, listening to Shotgun Honeymoon’s The Culmination, trying to avoid having to step outside for anything. I spent the week with mostly rock artists that varied from tame to hardcore, but am ending the week with a folk pop record that’s for the easy listening lovers out there.
The pop in The Culmination comes not only from the Vh1 appeal, but the repetitiveness throughout a lot of the songs, not the annoying kind, but the kind that you’d hear in Jason Mraz. Most of the EP was riddled with parts that would stick with you, no matter how hard you wanted something else in your head. Which is a good thing if you’re the artist, that means you’ve made a song that sticks.
With the rain hitting the window panes, “Wishing” was a perfect match for what lies outside from me. The lyrics contained imagery of a winter scene, however much more beautiful than the backed up 405 and the screeching of tires I’ve heard all morning. “Wishing” along with the love song “Show Me” and “1000 Years Ago” all have arrangements that go well together and remind me of that white guy with the guitar who won American Idol…wait, that’s been the last four or five, right? Let’s see…Phillip Phillips, that’s the one.
As I just said, those three go so well together, but it’s “Up To Something” that can’t really be compared to the others. It’s a little offbeat when it comes to the pace and that’s why it remained my favorite every run through the record. Only four songs on The Culmination? Nope, I just didn’t feel “How To Fail.” It wasn’t up to speed with the rest and therefor isn’t one I’d go to again and again.
Shotgun Honeymoon is probably somewhere in LA right now listening to the rain with his model good looks, thinking about love and life and writing more songs, but who knows? All I know is that if you’re a fan of Matt Hires and Daylight Tremor will be into Shotgun Honeymoon’s The Culmination, out now on Rock ‘N Renew Records.
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