On his latest album “Lives”, Dan Sartain rocks the words ‘twang’ and ‘reverb’. Sounding like all of his equipment was soaked in the mighty Mississippi before being set up in the studio, the songs on here have a murky sounds that suits them just fine.
Other words that come to mind are rockabilly, Southern gothic, blues, Elvis Costello and surf. You can clearly hear Sartain having a good time with this batch of songs. It’s all very easy on the ears, instantly memorable and it shows that you don’t need proggy math parts to make an album worth listening to. They figured out the basics for good songwriting a long time and when applied like Dan Sartain does on “Lives” they still lead to great results.
Score: 7.5 out of 10
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