Ear Candy

Review of A Life Played For Keeps

Grimson is a Canadian born songwriter with a great feel for writing catchy seventies FM radio style songs. His skills have gained him a cult following that includes Chris Murphy from the band Sloan. The vocals have a loose feel that makes you think that it could all fall apart at any moment but it never does. It’s a bit like Sting’s Roxanne era. It’s nice to hear music with slight imperfections. It gives the songs character and in a Pro-Tools world you don’t get that very often. My personal favorites on the album are the songs with a harder rock feel like “Paying For It”, “Come On Baby” and “Pull Of The Heart”. “Come On Baby” sounds like a long lost nugget from the past. This is a great album worth the listen.

Author: J.R. Oliver

2005-11-01