Vinyl Soup "The Beacon Within"

Country: USA
Sub Genre: Psychedelic
Release date: March 1, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Mr. Blue Shield
2. Leave Me Alone
3. Let It Go
4. What You Gave
5. Mount Juliet Way
6. Reminding Us All
 7. The Roof
8. The World Stood Still
9. Corner Cafe
10. You Lived To See This Day
11. A New Me
12. Perspectives

Line-up: 
Andrew Hooker - Guitar, Vocals
Justin McCoy Smith - Keyboards, Vocals
Justin Tyler Smith - Bass, Vocals
T.D. Tesla - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

Witness the new lyrical subject matter that is addressed (along with headphone worthy sonics) with a focus on strong melodies and uncluttered arrangements - an individual's plunge into the state of the American health care system in the hard bluesy opening single 'Mr. Blue Shield', the fight to rise above soul crushing loneliness in the Beatlesque 'Leave Me Alone', the B-3 organ driven reap what you sow fable of 'What You Gave', the consequences of addiction set to a buzzing circus of psychedelia in 'Corner Cafe', and the plea for a modern world peace from which the album derives its title in 'Reminding Us All', set over a Pink Floyd style insistent groove, for example. The closing trilogy of tunes ("You Live To See This Day" / "A New Me" / "Perspectives") speaks to the effects of the passage of time and the sense of a personal reset songwriter Andrew Hooker felt after emerging from a recent surgery, all with a Qudrophenia sense of drama and drive that goes from folky to stomping.

Read the whole review at top40-charts.com 

Media/Samples 
5 tracks online

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