Raised on TV - Make Time To Make Time (Sell the Heart Records)

Make Time to Make Time is that rarest of things, an album full of great songs. I’m not saying that quite every song would make it out there in the big wild world as a single in its own right, but this is certainly an album with a higher percentage of single standard material than any I have heard in a long time.

Hang on, I hear you say, I have loads of albums in my collection like that! Have you? Have you really? Go back and listen again with a more objective ear, and I’m sure you will find that the pop songs are full of studio gimmicks and dance routine-inspiring grooves, the indie albums full of cool but pointless sonic moves, the rock records mainly bluster and bravado. No, I’m sticking with my opening argument; this is contemporary songwriting of the indie/alt-rock interface at its finest.

And the album covers a lot of ground too, from the folk-pop infused, understated sound of “Wonder of Things” to the foot-on-the-monitor scuzzy garage rock fuzz of “Road Dogs” and from the shimmering power-pop of “Back In the Sun” to the singer-songwriter vibe of “Waiting on a Girl.”

There’s pop accessibility, rock drive, indie swagger, light-fingered deftness, robust groove, beauty and bravado, melody and muscle, groove and grit.

All killer, no filler? Pretty much!

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