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- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Singer-Songwriter
- Label: sonaBlast! / Thirty Tigers
Cellist gets pretty, pissed
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We Say...
Ben Sollee, cellist of the string band Sparrow Quartet, goes it solo on If You're Gonna Lead My Country, a digital-only EP and teaser to his upcoming full-length. The sound here is aggressively spare -- mostly Sollee's fluttering vocals and cello, with occasional tapped-out percussion. The sheen of prettiness on these tracks almost buries the lead here: Ben's a little pissed.
On "A Change is Gonna Come," Sollee mixes generic Beat-era rallying cries (see: song title) with some shots at the military industrial complex ("There's no rhyme or reason/ No sweet melody/ More and more weapons mean less security"). It's a little odd to hear political potshots on such a reserved tune, espeically once the song takes a jazzy left turn and fades out on a wispy trumpet solo. With his voice pushed dead front in the mix, though, Sollee is clearly looking to get his message across with only a spoonful of sugar.
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