I just got my
Garden of Souls CD on Friday. It was perfect timing as I was just sliding into the car for a fairly long and boring drive to North Carolina so I popped it in...cranked it up and let me tell ya, it impressed the pants off of me!The first song "Wake Up" is so incredibly infectious that if by the time you hear it a second time you aren't singing right along at the top of your lungs, something isn't clicking between your ears, it's *that* amazing.
Ok, get ready guys ... they cover Jeff Buckley's "Jewel Box" !! It starts out pretty straight forward which kind of had me a bit uneasy because I didn't want to hear a carbon copy cover. Well, it took around 20 seconds for that thought to be completely kicked out of my brain as they launched into a new direction with it. Garden of Souls grabbed up this song...embraced it...made love to it and when they let go of it, it was *theirs*. It's that good ... no joke. I couldn't help thinking Jeff would have probably dug the fact that they put so much of their own style into his song, plus it was cool as hell to have a song that was already beloved to me and I could sing along with.
The other two songs, "Runes" and "Phantoms" are gorgeous sweeping tunes that remind you that music is indeed an art and you need the right blending of instruments and voice to create an atmospheric mental picture, just as a painter needs his tools to create a realistic landscape. GOS knows exactly where the paint goes.
For more info or to get this CD visit the official
website: http://www.gardenofsouls.com