My Favorite New Album

Thinking about the abundance of new albums that have been released in the past three months, and how few of them I have actually listened to, I realized that my musical taste has become seriously limited lately. I have, quite sadly, become too caught up in the Billboard Top 50, listening to whatever song comes on the radio first...which is usually one of about ten pop or hip hop songs. Because of my lack of quality music lately, I decided to buy (yes, I actually paid for music) an album that was released very recently, Duncan Sheik's, "Whisper House." In the past, I haven't really given Duncan's music a chance, sticking to my more familiar and "popular" artists. Much to my surprise, out of the 12 tracks on the C.D., I really, really enjoyed about ten of them. Though I am no expert on playing or critiquing guitar, I thought the guitar work was exceptional and very comforting to listen to. Also, a trumpet was used on many of the songs, espcially in intros and the endings, which definitely gave the music its own flavor and interesting vibe. I found that the overall instrument variation was what made the music so appealing and interesting to me. Since I am a piano player myself, I also appreciated the simple melodies played on the piano/keyboard on almost all of the songs. Something else I discovered was that I absolutely LOVE Duncan Sheik's voice. His tone is soft and strong at the same time, which I find, is very rare in a musical artist. At times, it has an almost eerie or haunting tone to it, which instead of turning me away, drew me further into each song. My favorite song on the album is definitely "Play Your Part." Great, great lyrics. I am really excited that I decided to download this album because I have already listened to the whole thing through about five times in the past two days. I highly recommend it to all of you! In the future, I will definitely be more open to listening to, as we like to say, "less main stream artists." That's all for now :)