Glen Phillips - Winter Pays For Summer (Album Version) '2005

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Duck And Cover (Album Version)
02. Thankful (Album Version)
03. Courage (Album Version)
04. Released (Album Version)
05. Cleareyed (Album Version)
06. Falling (Album Version)
07. Half Life (Album Version)
08. True (Album Version)
09. Easier (Album Version)
10. Finally Fading (Album Version)
11. Simple (Album Version)
12. Gather (Album Version)
13. Don't Need Anything (Album Version)

Ex-Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips has always sounded wiser than
his years - he was 14 when he joined the band - so it's no surprise that his
second full-length collection of solo material is as elegant as it is weighty.
With a cast of characters that would appear in boldface if there were a pop
underground wall of fame (ex-Jellyfish frontman Andy Sturmer, Ben Folds, Kristin
Mooney, Jon Brion, Switchfoot's Jon Foreman and Semisonic/Trip Shakespeare
scribe Dan Wilson), Phillips has made a bid for commercial success -- each track
is poised for prime-time programming -- that's as strategically planned as it is
lovingly crafted. On the lush opener, "Duck and Cover," he pays homage to
Sprocket's ambitious folk-rock, utilizing the kind of winsome lyric ("Seems like
life is a palindrome/Cry when you die/Cry when you're born") and dramatic
melodic structure that made "Walk on the Ocean" such a genre-skipping hit. While
Phillips is unabashedly introspective, he's not above being happy about it --
the first single "Thankful," is layered with staccato Phillips/Sturmer backing
vocals and enough power pop key shifts to rival an A.C. Newman song - but there
is a river of melancholy flowing beneath Winter Pays for Summer that winds
through even its most upbeat offerings. Of the three songs co-written with Dan
Wilson, only the mesmerizing "Cleareyed" jumps out of the speakers upon first
listen, while the other two tread such familiar ground for both artists that the
end product seems to have required little or no effort. Vocally, Phillips has
matured into -- especially when he gets riled up -- a quiet storm that dutifully
blends Cat Stevens' confident huskiness and Jackson Browne's weary but warm
observer of all things broken, and it's this aspect that places him,
unapologetically, at the forefront of the adult alternative rock scene and
heading for a theater or a television set near you.



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