Bryon Thompson
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Review of "Get On With It"
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By: Ben Ohmart
ood things come in small packages. After all, anymore a cd shouldn't
be a mere 32 minutes long. Especially when you like the music. But some
things you can overlook because you like it. Bryon Thompson's latest
effort, Get On With It, is one such exception. This is instrumental
pop, fronted by a guitar. Yet the music is so fun and friendly, with
its usual array of instruments, that somehow you don't think of it as a
guitar album. If anything this is an instrumental release that walks
the line between pop, rock and jazz (how many lines does that make?) as
it pummels you with good feeling.
All of Get On With It is played by Bryon himself. If he produced and
mixed it as well, applause, please. But just writing and performing all
of this is enough to give untalented burks an inferiority complex.
While he doesn't show off much, he does implement melodies that get
trapped inside the brain easily enough. If you can't remember a tune
upon one listen, or don't want to, you're riding the short bus home.
The songs remind me of what the Beach Boys should've done on those
non-lyrical tracks of theirs in the early days. No, no spirit of surf
music here, but a spirit of adventure and a delight for living. I'd
rather hear that psychology than REM and the complaining kind any day.
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Ben Ohmart / MusicDish
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