Music : The Golden Hum

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Rating:

- One of the Best Albums Ever!
This is an amazing band that just keeps getting better as they move from one album to the next. While their previous albums were very good, this one is the first true heartfelt one that grabs hold of you at first listen. I'm one of those people who likes to go through things one at a time so i'll review these songs one at a time:

1. The Golden Hum: Get about 25 seconds into this song and it takes off. That tune is so great and as tension builds it, so does your love for this song.

2. Glorious #1: This is one great song with one great guitar hook and great lyrics. It would make a great single. Very possibly the defining song of the album.

3. Out/In: A very good song, but not one of the high points of the album. Interesting chorus makes this song very good.

4. Bitter: One opening guitar part that will just blow you away. A dark song that is hard yet affecting.

5. Perfect Memory: A wonderfully touching song that is certainly one of the album's many great moments. Touching lyrics of missing and longing truly stir up something inside you.

6. Save Me: The album's (barely) big hit, being the theme of the show "Smallville." This song sounds a lot like U2 I've noticed but is still original.

7. Belong: My personal favorite. A very sad, moving song about two people who were perfect together but then something happened. Wonderful lyrics. Wonderful chorus. Just wonderful.

8. Hollywood High & Over the Rails: Yet another great song with a great guitar part and great lyrics. Don't miss the part between it and the next song.

9. Smile: My least favorite on the album but still a good song. After the quiet prelude, the song takes off with a loud awakening.

10. I'm Not Afraid: A beautiful little piece of songwriting. The quietest song on the album is another high point.

11. Impossibility: This song starts off really fast-paced and wild, in a great sense, that is. Sample lyrics: "How could you see, impossibility, as far as I know I am your son." Skip forward to seven minutes into the song to here a completely different part that is just plain beautiful.

After all this, I have to wonder why this great band isn't very popular with customers. I have tried to promote it with friends and family and it seems to be working. Hopefully their name and their music will spread like wildfire through the record industry, making them as well-known as they deserve to be.

Rating:

- A must have
The Golden Hum is Remy Zero's third released album. It also marks their first album since changing record companies to Elektra. The Golden Hum can be described basically as soaring vocals, backed by strong drums, a steady bass, and set on 2 layers of guitar. The lead guitar is usually pretty fast and really carries the vocals. The second guitar seems to be more subtle, but adds a brilliant accent to the music. I must admit that The Golden Hum is more pop-ish than Remy Zero's earlier work, but I certainly do not consider it pop. As always, the lyrics are tremendous and make the songs become a part of you.

The actual concept of The Golden Hum may seem to be, at the very least, a bit ambiguous. By looking at the cover-art which comes with the CD, you can infer what The Golden Hum is. In every picture, the faces of the people, of whom there are many different kinds, are hidden by a "brilliant, shining light." This implies that The Golden Hum is a sort of utopia in which there is no personal ego. Even though all of the faces look the same, the bodies are all different which signifies that there can be individuality without ego. I suppose this is kind of how God sees us.

I think of The Golden Hum as walking into a cathedral or someplace like that and there is this rush of peace and you can almost hear this, "Ahhh..." sung by this beautiful soprano voice. Know what I mean?

Rating:

- An awesome third album from an incredibly underrated band
Remy Zero are one of the few truly underrated alternative rock bands in America today. Their latest album, "The Golden Hum" is solid proof of this. The band have produced 11 truly beautiful and unique songs - melodic and in some ways gentle (no heavy guitar banging here) with tremendously real, introspective and occasionally dark lyrics. Cinjun Tate's passionate, moving vocals are truly exceptional. Some of the best tracks on the album are "Perfect Memory" "Save Me" "Belong" and "Impossibility." Anybody who apprieciates true, consistent quality rock should definately give Remy Zero a try.

Rating:

- My Opinion
This album deals with joy and loss. I find it very honest, sweet, with sadness and melancholy woven in between the lines. It is peaceful, and I have not heard anything like "Save Me" in years. I got goosebumps! Like a lot of people, I first heard it on "Smallville." Remy Zero is a treasure.

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