Matt Mays: Matt Mays + El Torpedo
CML call number: CD ROCK Mays
Contents: Stand Down at Sundown, Travellin', Cocaine Cowgirl, The Plan, Ain't So Heavy, Move Your Mind, What Are We Gonna Do Come the Month of September?, Good People, Lost Souls, It Don't Matter, On the Hood, Time of Your Life (Til You're Dead), Wicked Come Winter.
Eric R. Danton wrote in his Hartford Courant blog, Sound Check: "After someone tells me enough times how great something is, I can't help but adopt a contrarian position. This is especially true when publicists flog their bands — they're getting paid to say nice things, so how great can it really be? In the case of Matt Mays & El Torpedo, the answer is pretty darn great. Mailroom issues on one end or the other prevented me from hearing the record until today, but now that I've heard it, you were right, Publicist Carrie, it's worthwhile. It's loud rock 'n' roll with an alt-country vibe — think Bruce Springsteen jamming with the Jayhawks — so naturally it grabbed my attention. But the songwriting is sharp, the guitars nice and growly and there's just the right amount of world weariness" (10/13/06).
Contents: Stand Down at Sundown, Travellin', Cocaine Cowgirl, The Plan, Ain't So Heavy, Move Your Mind, What Are We Gonna Do Come the Month of September?, Good People, Lost Souls, It Don't Matter, On the Hood, Time of Your Life (Til You're Dead), Wicked Come Winter.
Eric R. Danton wrote in his Hartford Courant blog, Sound Check: "After someone tells me enough times how great something is, I can't help but adopt a contrarian position. This is especially true when publicists flog their bands — they're getting paid to say nice things, so how great can it really be? In the case of Matt Mays & El Torpedo, the answer is pretty darn great. Mailroom issues on one end or the other prevented me from hearing the record until today, but now that I've heard it, you were right, Publicist Carrie, it's worthwhile. It's loud rock 'n' roll with an alt-country vibe — think Bruce Springsteen jamming with the Jayhawks — so naturally it grabbed my attention. But the songwriting is sharp, the guitars nice and growly and there's just the right amount of world weariness" (10/13/06).
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