Sister Hazel - Fortress
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Artist: Sister HazelEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2000-06-27
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:
- Change Your Mind
- Back Porch
- Thank You
- Champagne High
- Beautiful Thing
- Surreal
- Shame on Me
- Your Winter
- Strange Cup of Tea
- Save Me
- Give In
- Out There
- Elvis
- Fortress
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Free Music Review: Outstanding!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album was one of my favourite albums for a long long time. Here's why...
First of all, I hadn't heard anything like them before. I'm a big fan of early 90's power rock and the reason I was so instantly drawn to them when I first heard their music coming from my housemates bedroom was that here was a fairly modern band sticking to their roots and not compromising their style. This album has a wanderful sounds production with the occasionally bassey crunch chords and crisp accoustic picking. The style is a mixture of southern rock, emphasised by Ken Blocks highly likeable vocals and Ryan Newells sliding guitar solo's, a bit of Chili peppers style funk and a bit of blink 182 style pop rock. I have a couple of Hootie and the blowfish albums and I've heard some counting crows before and I have to say that these only sound vaguely similar on surface level. Every song on this album is good, especially Drew Copelands strange cup tea with such a good mixture of songs from the emotional CHampeign high and Your winter to the highly catchy Shame on me and change your mind.
The thing that makes this better than their other albums in my opinion is the whole overall production of it. After their first two albums which took on a more simple accoustic style, this came out and just abandoned everything they had made themselves into. Fast and funky guitar solo's, innovative riffs and crunchy chords and a whole new dimention to Ken Blocks vocals. Chasing daylight provided more of the same, but there was something missing from the album that fortress had, possibly more diversity in the songs. After fortress their style started leaning more towards the blink 182 style keeping it more musically simple, but still just as catchy.
Fortress Poster
If innovation is the yardstick by which you measure the worth of a rock band, Sister Hazel won't measure up very well. The Gainesville, Florida, septet is the very definition of a mainstream jangle-pop band, and you've heard their brand of music before, most recently from the likes of Hootie & the Blowfish, Edwin McCain, matchbox twenty, and Third Eye Blind. But in terms of sheer tunefulness and the way their melodies and lyrics lodge in your frontal lobe, Sister Hazel's songs on Fortress can make efforts by the other bands seem pale in comparison. The group's third album leads with "Change Your Mind," a feel-good summer song if ever there was one. Simple, straightforward guitar-based tunes like "Shame on Me," "Fortress," "Save Me," and "Champagne High" (featuring Indigo Girl Emily Saliers) ring with high harmonies and hook-filled choruses. If nothing else, Sister Hazel proves that it's not necessary to reinvent the wheel every time a band puts out a record. --Daniel DurchholzPop Music CDs
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