Pop music
has lost any sense of individuality it would seem.
Or you
could be forgiven for thinking that if you were lending an ear to the
national charts.
A parade
of soundalike material that runs from r&b songs with a bit of
rap, to rap tunes with some r&b added, and then there's the
occasional boy/girl band, or solo boy/girl act, ploughing an equally
redundant furrow.
The days
of the singer songwriters making their mark in the public's
consciousness seems to be consigned to the past.
Of course
there are exceptions to the rule.
We have
Paulo Nutini for one, and Gary Barlow and Ray Lamontagne to mention
another two, but to paraphrase Ol' Blue Eyes they are 'then again too
few to mention'.
Hopefully
there's room for one more though, as Sean Kennedy has shows with his
debut ep that rather than reaching for the bottom rung and looking to
cling on, he has instead delivered material strong enough to ensure
himself a solid footing next to those who are already enjoying a
great deal of success.
Across
the breadth of the five songs he displays a knack for writing
material that immediately beds in, and even acts as a catalyst to
thinking who could sing the songs if he limited himself to the song
writing side.
From his
acoustic tracks to the lush orchestral arrangements on others there's
really no low points in the ep's totality.
Nothing
jars, and it's a very smooth listening experience with the song
writing and the musicianship maintaining a very high standard.
Someone
like Simon Cowell would sell a limb to sign Sean Kennedy, and that's
not to belittle what Sean is doing by mentioning his name in the same
breath as the music fans 'he who cannot be named', but instead to
draw attention to how the material is already perfectly formed and
very obviously ripe to be put out there for a large demographic of
the public to enjoy.
If this
ep serves to ease the door open a bit, then a full album of a similar
quality will kick it wide open and Sean's name could very well be
hanging over the doors of some major venues.
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