CD Review: "This Town" by David J Taylor
Aug. 4th, 2005 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daddytoddI've been a fan of Dave Taylor's for about 3 years now, since I acquired a couple CD EPs of his music through mp3.com, back in the old days when mp3.com specialized in marketing the music of unsigned acts. (I have no idea what they specialize in now, but I can't find any of Dave's music on their site any more.)
Dave and I were net buddies before I even knew he was a musician (similar to my friendship with Elijah Black). On cam one day, I noticed a guitar propped against the wall in Dave's home, and I asked him if he played. He admitted he did, and pointed me at the mp3.com music. I got all his stuff I could, and really liked the half-dozen power pop gems he recorded with Dollar Store Mary in 2002. (He wrote, produced and sang them. What did the other band members do?)
Anyway, when I started to get into "bear music" after catching a Bearapalooza show in Seattle during Spring Thaw, I remembered how much I'd enjoyed Dave's songs, and spent a good deal of time googling before I found his current online home: www.davidjtaylor.com.
I was excited to see that he had a new CD about to be released, so I e-mailed him to see if I could buy a copy online.
There were no provisions at that time for internet sales, so I worked out a deal with Dave and obtained a copy of his brand-spanking new self-released CD "This Town."
I've listened to it several dozen times in the 4 weeks or so since I got it; I even played most of it for Kendall when he was here. He was impressed. I was blown away. Dave's songwriting has matured and improved since the DSM days (and I love that stuff a LOT!)
Dave's new songs were built around circular loops created on a sound capture device, giving them a very different structure and feel. I'm reminded a bit of The Postal Service (some of Dave's earlier stuff reminded me a little of Death Cab for Cutie… an artifact of Dave's time in Vancouver?)
But comparing it to someone else's work is unfair, because Dave is the real deal. He's a great emotive singer, talented songwriter and great performer.
If you can find a copy of this CD, it's definitely worth the effort. This one will be in my "top 5" list for 2005.
Dave and I were net buddies before I even knew he was a musician (similar to my friendship with Elijah Black). On cam one day, I noticed a guitar propped against the wall in Dave's home, and I asked him if he played. He admitted he did, and pointed me at the mp3.com music. I got all his stuff I could, and really liked the half-dozen power pop gems he recorded with Dollar Store Mary in 2002. (He wrote, produced and sang them. What did the other band members do?)
Anyway, when I started to get into "bear music" after catching a Bearapalooza show in Seattle during Spring Thaw, I remembered how much I'd enjoyed Dave's songs, and spent a good deal of time googling before I found his current online home: www.davidjtaylor.com.
I was excited to see that he had a new CD about to be released, so I e-mailed him to see if I could buy a copy online.
There were no provisions at that time for internet sales, so I worked out a deal with Dave and obtained a copy of his brand-spanking new self-released CD "This Town."
I've listened to it several dozen times in the 4 weeks or so since I got it; I even played most of it for Kendall when he was here. He was impressed. I was blown away. Dave's songwriting has matured and improved since the DSM days (and I love that stuff a LOT!)
Dave's new songs were built around circular loops created on a sound capture device, giving them a very different structure and feel. I'm reminded a bit of The Postal Service (some of Dave's earlier stuff reminded me a little of Death Cab for Cutie… an artifact of Dave's time in Vancouver?)
But comparing it to someone else's work is unfair, because Dave is the real deal. He's a great emotive singer, talented songwriter and great performer.
If you can find a copy of this CD, it's definitely worth the effort. This one will be in my "top 5" list for 2005.
