Susan Frances
06/16/08, 01:51 PM
Landon Pigg – Coffee Shop
Record Label: RCA Records
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Landon Pigg has the right recipe for an enjoyable acoustic-pop album. His latest release Coffee Shop is a 5-track record that features breezy melodic passages and complementing patterns as Pigg’s vocals support the melodies with gently cradling chords. It is an album that anyone can fall in love with and take with them through all the years of their life.
The opening track “Falling in Love at A Coffee Shop” has a comfy romantic flare, and “Great Companion” has vibrant choruses that reel audiences into its melodic core. The loose, wavy acoustics of “Can’t Let Go” and “Young At Heart” are lounging with soft whispered vocals and gingerly coiled chord movements. The final track, “Magnetismo,” has a Latin flavoring in the guitar intonations as Pigg’s vocals take the lead through the rumba-cut grooves. Pigg took a risk on including this song on the record but it is certainly the Rosetta Stone in the collection, the key that holds the secrets to his writings. The lyrics reflect over life as if Landon is reading excerpts from his memoirs like in the song “Falling in Love at A Coffee Shop” when Pigg ruminates, “I think that possibly, maybe I’m falling for you / Yes, there’s a chance that I’ve fallen quite hard over you / I’ve seen the paths that your eyes wander down / I want to come too.”
Landon Pigg actually released a self-titled album in 2006 that escaped commercial radio’s grasp. His follow up Coffee Shop has ripples of folk, pop, acoustic-rock, and something that makes it stand out from any other folk-pop artist. Pigg’s vocals take on the role of supporting many of the melodies rather than making the music support him. It’s a more cooperative approach to songwriting, which bodes well for Landon Pigg.
Patrick Park, Josh Kelley, Jedd Hughes, John Lennon.
www.myspace.com/landonpigg (http://www.myspace.com/landonpigg)
Record Label: RCA Records
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Landon Pigg has the right recipe for an enjoyable acoustic-pop album. His latest release Coffee Shop is a 5-track record that features breezy melodic passages and complementing patterns as Pigg’s vocals support the melodies with gently cradling chords. It is an album that anyone can fall in love with and take with them through all the years of their life.
The opening track “Falling in Love at A Coffee Shop” has a comfy romantic flare, and “Great Companion” has vibrant choruses that reel audiences into its melodic core. The loose, wavy acoustics of “Can’t Let Go” and “Young At Heart” are lounging with soft whispered vocals and gingerly coiled chord movements. The final track, “Magnetismo,” has a Latin flavoring in the guitar intonations as Pigg’s vocals take the lead through the rumba-cut grooves. Pigg took a risk on including this song on the record but it is certainly the Rosetta Stone in the collection, the key that holds the secrets to his writings. The lyrics reflect over life as if Landon is reading excerpts from his memoirs like in the song “Falling in Love at A Coffee Shop” when Pigg ruminates, “I think that possibly, maybe I’m falling for you / Yes, there’s a chance that I’ve fallen quite hard over you / I’ve seen the paths that your eyes wander down / I want to come too.”
Landon Pigg actually released a self-titled album in 2006 that escaped commercial radio’s grasp. His follow up Coffee Shop has ripples of folk, pop, acoustic-rock, and something that makes it stand out from any other folk-pop artist. Pigg’s vocals take on the role of supporting many of the melodies rather than making the music support him. It’s a more cooperative approach to songwriting, which bodes well for Landon Pigg.
Patrick Park, Josh Kelley, Jedd Hughes, John Lennon.
www.myspace.com/landonpigg (http://www.myspace.com/landonpigg)