Hemant Rao - Sunshine Runaway
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Name: Hemant Rao Album: Sunshine Runaway Released: 2004 Members: Hemant Rao - Vocals, guitars, violin Lindsay Belloc, Ron Roach - drums Doug Brown, Ken Gilbert - bass guitar Anthony Kerr - bsas guitar, organ, piano Website: www.hemantrao.com |
I’ll be honest. I don’t like secret tracks that don’t really add any music to an album. And I was severely disappointed the first time I popped this in and realized the second track was 51 seconds of ocean noises. The rest of the album makes up for it though, so I guess it isn’t TOO bad. It just will force me to rip the CD, and burn it minus track 2. I hope the the singer isn’t offended that I would likely do that.
Pop, Powerpop, Rock. I’ve completely sucommed to having Myspace dictate what music genres the band should be labeled under. That and the fact the band picks what they are going to display. What’s the difference between pop and powerpop anyways? I feel like I’m watching Home Improvement with Tim Allen’s whole “More Power!” thing as the electric-power-crazed father we all grew to love over the span of too many years on sitcom TV. Whatever powerpop is, I like it. It’s fun and catchy, and hopeful and uplifting.
For being self-proclaimed pop music, each song is different enough to know that you’re listening to music written by a musician working on diversity, rather than a musician working towards a formula striving for 100% success. Oh commercial radio, when will you learn that formulas only work for so long and that’s what creates so many one/no-hit wonders. I hear sometimes common elements between songs, but it’s still refreshing to hear that each track is an individual.
I could chill out listening to Hemant Rao. Currently the idea of chillin’ out on the back patio with a girlie fruit-filled alcoholic drink and hanging out with some of my best friends while this gets blasted through the house just loud enough to be able to make it a good audio backdrop sounds extremely pleasing. It’s also boiling hot right now when I’m writing this. Non-offensive music rocks because you can play it anywhere. And this is the supreme of non-offensive.
