This blog is born of a New Year's resolution challenging myself to write every day. My goal is to regularly update this space with short music reviews—mainly songs, as that seems most manageable, but hopefully some albums as well—in order to exercise my skills of artistic critique (and perhaps expand my own sonic horizons in the process).
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
"Pontoon" Little Big Town
There's nothing egregiously bad about Little Big Town's "Pontoon," a twangy celebration of summer lake trips that's been floating around the top twenty of the iTunes chart for weeks now. Unfortunately, the song is as dull as... Sorry, I momentarily feel asleep trying to think of an adequate aquatic-themed analogy. Lazing through a series of instructional lyrics that sound like they were written in about 10 minutes, the coed Alabama quartet provides the soundtrack for the least exciting pool party your aunt has ever hosted. Who are all these people buying this sleepy, sun-kissed jam session? Remind me not to attend their Labor Day barbeques. C-
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