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James Apollo | Pull Down The Curtain

CD, Nebular 04 februari 2001,

Tekst: Maurice Dielemans

Publicatiedatum: 04 februari 2001

James Apollo's latest release 'Pull Down the Curtain' reflects the feel-good innocence of the music from the fifties. James Apollo is just like a talented kid who received a guitar for his birthday. Influenced by many great rock'n'roll heroes such as Tom Waits, Buddy Holly, and Elvis Costello, but with a voice and some great ideas of his very own. I believe James Apollo is not as weird as Tom Waits or Beck, but there is some kind of retrospective roots rock'n'roll extravaganzas in his music. While all of this makes James Apollo a gifted and creative musician with some very nice ideas, this album is a little brief at less than thirty minutes. I wouldn't really mind if all of nine songs on 'Pull Down the Curtain' were as dynamic as the first single 'One Horse Town', because I'd rather hear thirty minutes of great music than seventy-four wasted minutes of pretentious sounds. Not that this is a bad album, but he just pulls down the curtain too soon, leaving you with only one standout song and the strange feeling that James Apollo can do much better than this. Well, if you don't want to put a quarter in the machine to hear 'Pull Down the Curtain' , you can always download 'One Horse Town' from the official James Apollo website. It's free!

http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/james-apollo/pull-down-the-curtain/76/
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