Steve Porter
A Sack Full of Heartbreak Rocks
© 2005 Steve Porter (634479115875)
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Detailed and dynamic songs about love and life, sung with warmth and soul.
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This album is a great mix of styles, easing the listener from a piano ballad to a night club throb, from a spaced out echoing mind-warp to an acoustic strum and sing-along.
Despite there being extremes of loud and quiet stuff on the record, the music has an overall vibe and feel that doesn't rough the listener around too much. It helps the them along with catchy melodies and an economic approach to song arrangement.
The vocals are recorded in an up-front style, like the instruments. It's not all flooded with reverb and hiding in bizarre mixes. It's very true about what it is. There are phases of heavily layered vocal in places to create the backing and harmonies, which is designed to add warmth and intimacy to the overall feel.
There is some studio trickery and intricacy in the production, but this is only where the song is served by it. "Like Magic" is just piano and voice, while "Is The Devil Me?" boasts a massive array of drum loops and instrumentation.
A very important aspect to the album is the lyrics (included in full in the plush CD inlay!). They are honest, but in a way that (hopefully) most people can relate to. They are just real songs about real people, things and feelings.
Despite the title, the album is mainly positive and hopeful in tone. When it does sucumb to melancoly, cos life isn't all smiles, it does not do so over-indulgently!
Enjoy!
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Really positive and upbeat...
author: Lorna FisherThe whole album sounds really tight. The melodies were really catchy and very accessible. You know how some people can wear really flamboyant clothes when the same outfit would look ridiculous on another person? I felt you took on these different styles boldly and they worked. Some of the tracks were quite daring. The whole album was really positive and upbeat, despite the title of it.
Steve creates a sack-full of hits!
author: Lesley Bates, Salisbury JournalSteve Porter has just released his first album, A Sack Full of Heartbreak Rocks. It's taken two years and a succession of musicians and singers trekking one by one into his makeshift recording studio to add their chords, instrumental and vocal, to his voice and guitar. The album is an eclectic mix of the funky and the sassy, and the guntle and the delicate. Some of it is childlike in it's simplicity and other tracks are multi-stranded and unexpected in their complexity. 3-Feb-2005