The Explorers Club-Freedom Wind-(Advance)-2008-404

ARTiST: The Explorers Club
ALBUM: Freedom Wind
BiTRATE: 167kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Dead Oceans
GENRE: Indie
SiZE: 44.65 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 35min 01sec total
RiP DATE: 2008-04-26
STORE DATE: 2008-05-23

Track List:01. Forever 2:32
02. Honey, I Don't Know Why 2:59
03. Don't Forget The Sun 3:11
04. Lost My Head 2:07
05. Do You Love Me? 2:47
06. Summer Air 2:23
07. If You Go 3:22
08. In The Country 3:45
09. Safe Distance 2:06
10. Hold Me Tight 3:17
11. Last Kiss 2:35
12. Freedom Wind 3:57

Release Notes:There is some music that is just not un-likeable. The Explorer? Club ?reedom
Wind?is just that. The sixpiece group (four of whom pitch in with vocals) out
of Charleston, S.C. re-invent the Beach Boys in such a classy, respectful way
that I am more inclined to think that these guys grew up on Huntington Beach
instead of the east coast. Jason (guitar, piano, vocals), James (ditto to
Jason), Dave (accordion, guitar, mandolin, vocals), Neil (drums), Stefan (organ,
keys, piano), and Wally (bass and vocals) piece together an album that is the
kind of psychadelic, beachy-pop, impeccably harmonized music that makes it
difficult to not sway your body to. The vocal-harmonizing is just sick?ason,
James, Dave, and Wally blend their voices together in a way that has been lost
since the Beach Boys left the music scene.

Of course, if you?e looking for some deep philosophical, political, or
ideological lyrics you?e going to be disappointed here. Following the footsteps
of their predecessors, The Explorer? Club sing about love?he kind of love you
have during summer break in college that have elements of romance, and maybe
even some heart-felt emotion, but you have this inkling that this is purely a
summer thing. ?reedom Wind?will most certainly become a summer classic?ust
like the Boys did for their generation.

There? a serious hazard in writing about music. There? a reason why there is
music and there is prose?hey perform different functions and do different
things for the readers/listeners. This is one of those instances where I really
don? want to write about an album because, well, you just have to experience
it?aybe with a convertible on a winding country road where you?e completely
lost, and gladly so.