Charlie West
"Confuse My Fuzziness" CD
Parapsychosis
Records
Genres: folk-rock, rock, psych-folk
Jan 12 - 18 2004 |
Charlie
West, aka "The Psychedelic Folkster," is going to have
to fix his cover art next time around. This carbon-copy crap is
just awful, a horror to the eyes. Thankfully the music is much
better.
West's style sees him combining elements of psych (spacey
guitars, psych-y melodies) and folk (largely acoustic format,
'troubadour' atmosphere), and on many of the tracks this is very
successful. The first four songs are especially pleasant, and
will likely be enjoyed by many listeners, especially those turned on by
inoffensive, simple pop music. "Feel Not," one of the
album's best tunes, is a terrific acoustic pop song that anyone will
enjoy - it uses his simple, basic formula, and the results are
unspectacular but very enjoyable.
Though this album is likely geared more at adults than anyone else,
its terrific songs deserve a full audience. The abysmal cover art will
hamper it, but in actuality Confuse My Fuzziness contains fourteen
very catchy folk-pop tunes.
85%
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 14 tracks, distributed by the
label, released 2003] |