You know how it goes: you dream of being on stage, you learn to write songs, you get good at being in a band, and you spend decades taking your sonic creations to any bar or stage, coffee shop, or creative space that will let you in, and then it all falls apart when your old habit of starting restaurants gets in the way. That same curse has ended so many a promising career that it has almost become a cliche.
Thankfully, after many years of culinary distraction, Michael Landgarten felt the urge to return to the sonic fray and embarked on the creation of a new album, Back To You. And “But I Do” succinctly displays why it was the right thing to do.
A groovesome slice of pop-rock, featuring growling rhythm lines and staccato riffs, spaciousness, and sonic smarts, it is the sort of song that only someone who has lived a life could have written —a gentle anthem to the realities and grip of love. A song with all the hallmarks of those timeless, infectious, memorable creations that become tagged iconic, ones that sound as if they have always been in your life, even when they clearly haven’t.
And that, dear reader, is the definition of a classic in the making… all that is missing is the passing of enough time. I’m happy to wait!
