| Cary Brothers Waiting for Your Letter [EP] |
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 | Tracklist:
1. Ride
2. Waiting For Your Letter
3. Lonliest Girl In the World
4. Wasted One
5. Forget about You
Release Date: 2005 | |
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| Summary: This album achieves what it achieves because of the togetherness and interlinking of the songs. |
It's fairly astute to say that anyone who is familiar with the works of Zach Braff will have come across Cary Brothers in some form. It happened with 'Garden State' and the fairly iconic Blue Eyes (from All The Rage), it happened in 'The Last Kiss' with Brother's Ride, and for me it happened with 'Scrubs' - Waiting for your Letter. Essentially the whole song to vision transformation works quite well. The scenes are never really off-putting, so if anything it's a joy to see if you're a fan.
Brothers appears to be quite well suited to the role of short, snappy compilations, which is a reason this EP finds itself in such impressive steed.
1. Ride
This song begins with some simple guitar and continues to collaborate a few riffs. The catchiness is a little shocking and the song's optimistic mood is a great plus. It's a little unfortunate that the album seems to promise some happiness with this song, and certainly doesn't deliver such. The lyrics in this song also count for something; the simplicity works well and lyrics such as: This Darkness/That I could ever show. In a sense this song doesn't overwhelm you but it does push past what mediocre or basic artists would do - thus making a nice little introduction to this composition.
3.5/5
2. Waiting for Your Letter
After this song was played on Scrubs I really can't associate this song with anything other than the scene of which it was used in - but hey, that doesn't mean it's a bad thing! This song truly is the highlight of this EP and will stay in the memory as much as the next song. The song reaches a little bit of a climax towards the middle and eventually ends with a simple and appropriate Stop. The singing on this piece fits very well and it feels like Brothers is out to achieve something with this.
5/5
3. Loneliest Girl in the World
This song isn't out to do anything special and many would deem it as quite a bland song, including myself. Hey now, that doesn't mean it's a poor song; in essence it is here to place a line between the two more 'up beat' songs, which this song follows, and numbers four and five, which resemble a more solemn tone. Lyrically there isn't much to write home about (see what I did there?), but the piano is quite memorable and you know, after this song, that Brothers can produce solid pieces of work.
3/5
4. Wasted One
This song quite agonisingly builds itself up slowly, however, it really is worth it. The second half of this song proves that solitude can be accompanied with louder, faster-paced music - the song is especially constructed outstandingly.
The sound effects in this song easily link it to a more depressing counterpart to Ride. The lyrics come through again with I had a feeling/Now I am left with none, and it somewhat feels as if this is a response to Ride - looking back or as a comparison.
4/5
5. Forget About You
This song really ends the album as if the whole album had been built up to fade like this; in a sense this song can confirm that all these songs may have been interlinked, written about the same person or event. The guitar plays out and the emotion in the voice shows quite hauntingly. It certainly achieves its concept.
3.5
Conclusion
To put it simply, you really get a feeling this album works - not because of individual efforts, but merely because these songs are together. Significantly it seems as if Brothers has sat down and written a few songs concerning what he was feeling and thinking; which is surprisingly rare within music today. This album does not physically drain you, and were one to listen to it from start to finish this album could certainly compile a range of emotions; circling from a high tempo to a calm ending. Were this album any other way, I do not see it working out. With anymore songs it would appear over done, and with any more complications the album would just not make sense.
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