BOWS & EROS: What's This Remind You Of?

bows & eros

What's This Remind You Of?

© 2008 Matthew and John Schutte (842841016723)

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A mind-bending eargasm. Four hour erection may occur.

notes

The music you hear on the radio today, the top 40 stuff; it’s like soda pop that has gone flat. It’s sweet, there’s flavor; you can hear music and singing and harmonies, but it’s bland, tiringly repetitious, and lacking a soul.
Music and the way music is distributed has gone through some major changes, and there is this rift where you have the plastic world of ready-made bands thrown together via mega corporations on one side and independent, alternative bands that aren’t even under a label, yet are perfectly viable and accessible on the other side.
Within the bandwidth of independent music there are many genres and subgenres, and a larger occurrence of experimentation. A wider variety of acceptable recording media and the power of recording and editing being easily available combined with the digital online labyrinth has opened the gates to a world of music and aural expression that has been sitting out there unnoticed.
“What’s This Remind You Of?” is a polished example of a band, bows & eros, that took a compilation of original songs from studio to internet distribution without working through a label or record company. The challenge of promoting the album is theirs.
Tagging bows & eros with a moniker designating what genre they fall under isn’t easy. Having somewhere between three to four hundred songs (and counting) under his belt, singer/songwriter John Eros is a very prolific tunesmith who has written songs that fall under many categories.
The best way I can describe this album is to compare it to a set of Crayola Crayons. Every song is its own unique color, and together the assortment touches and acts upon the imagination, emotion, and intellect.

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  • Wow!
    author: Sandi Valet

    I love it! Where are these guys from?

  • Spandecular
    author: JP Spaceth

    I heard this album played over and over by a neighbor in the apartment above mine. I couldn't hear the music clearly enough to make out the lyrics, but clearly enough to hear the instrumentation and melodies. I liked "Alkaloids" immediately, and the rest of the album grew on me as it heard it more. After about two weeks of hearing this album repeatedly everyday, I had to ask my neighbor who it was. I was totally blown away to find out that it was made by some friends of hers, and that they weren't under a label so you couldn't get a CD unless one of the guys from the band burned you one. So my neighbor burned me a copy, and then I was listening to it over and over again. It just never gets old. I can hear what in my opinion are mainly British influences, but Bows and Eros doesn't sound like, say, the Beatles, or the Who. It's like a musical amalgam of all these great British rock and pop artists all mixed together, but you can't point at any one song or any good melodic hook and say, "Aha! That's Bowie!" I heard they're working on another album, and it's kind of a stripped down, more acoustic set of songs. I can't wait to hear it!

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