More Info: www.morganfinlay.com, www.briscobodai.com
Verdict (Rating %): Laid back mixture of rootsy AOR & Funk (70 %)
Morgan Finlay is a singer/songwriter from Toronto, Canada Oh yeah,just what I wanted - a package arriving in the mail postmarked Toronto right when Toronto was making the headlines regarding SARS.
It is hard to describe Morgan's music. Imagine if Mark Spiro, Dan Reed, Jude Cole and maybe Warren Zevon were merged together - Morgan Finlay? Morgan describes it as 'an organic mix of edgy modern music and easy funk'. I can't think of a better description.
Opening and closing tracks, "Zensong" and "Everything Will Work Out Right", are similiar in style. "Zensong" is a Mark Spiro meets U2/REM style affair, whilst "Everything Will Work Out Right" is more Jude Cole/Mark Spiro/Warren Zevon.
In between there are a couple of funk based tracks, "In A Perfect World" and "A Lesson". "In A Perfect World" works best and I've written Earth, Wind and Fire meets Warren Zevon, if such a thing doesn't bend your mind too much.
That just leaves a short acoustic guitar piece called "Flow" and "The Reason Why", which is a slower AOR style (Timothy Drury/Jude Cole is what I've got in my listening notes).
OK. I'm beginning to wonder about my new rating system, as the last three albums I've reviewed have all ended up with the same score!!! The people I used as comparisons at the start of the review all feature in my own record collection with one or two albums each ,which says I like them but I'm not a big league fan - a little too laid back for me unless I'm in that frame of mind So maybe if you are more into laid back rootsy AOR, you might want to increase Upercut's rating slightly.
