I started listening to Ship Captain Crew’s House of Mercury awhile ago and got stuck on a couple tracks in between texting about my girl woes and trying to ensure a second date with this really awesome guy who likely doesn’t think I’m as awesome as I think he is because that’s the way my life works. Anyways, it’s not that those two songs were ignored when I got stuck on them, but rather they were perfection.
There was nothing wrong with “Against the Waves” or “I Was Born,” nothing at all. They were great songs that added this singer’s voice on my vocal crush list. However they didn’t speak to me like two others did. “Talking to Your Ghost” was about being scared shitless of losing someone because that’s usually that’s, how they say…how the cookie crumbles. Well of course I identified with that one. As soon as you put your heart out there, it’s bound to be broken.
It was “Notebooks” though that got me first and foremost. There were stellar lines “I wrote a lot of things down inside notebooks that I would hide” and “Not gonna waste my time defining what defines me.” I love songs like this and you team that with amazing vocals and I’m in heaven. Not since New Found Glory’s “Truth of My Youth” has I really attached myself to a song like this. Writing is one of my everythings and it’s nice to hear songs that pay homage to that sentiment.
As I continue to text, think about life choices and listening to “Notebooks” on repeat…I’ll tell you that you should come to the Ship Captain Crew for the party but stay for the heart. So do yourself a solid and check out House of Mercury, out now.
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