There is no substitute for good songwriting. Forget all the studio gimmicks, the clever tricks, and zeitgeist-driven sonic fashion statements; if there isn’t a good song at the heart of what you are doing, then you are, as the saying goes, trying to get blood out of a stone. (I was going to use a more extreme phrase…something about trying to polish something that can’t be polished…but I’m writing this before the watershed.)
AudioGust is aware of this basic truth; how else would he have ended up with a song like “Something in the Water?” Forget trying to tag it as this genre or that style; like all great songs, it transcends such shoddy journalistic tricks and heads straight to that rarified place of classic …or at least future classic, which is the result of great penmanship and the passage of enough time.
It ebbs and flows on gentle rock energies, is pop-aware enough to be infectious without being obvious, it blends grace and groove, is subtly addictive and lyrically engaging. What more could you want from a song?
And with a full album, This Time or Any Other out now and brimming with more quality tracks, there is no better time to remind yourself via AudioGust’s deft tunes that great songwriting eclipses everything else in the songwriter’s arsenal.
