Sherwood – A Different Light

Artist: Sherwood
Album: A Different Light
Label: Myspace Records
Purchase: Flipside Industries
Release Date: March 13, 2007

Overall: 9.0
Music: 9.0
Lyrics: 9.0
Production: 9.0

Sherwood is a band that simply made a huge music career lately with the online music scene. This album is going to take them from online listeners to a whole new audience. All the songs are just pop-gems dying to be ate up by the mainsteam radio crowd. It’s been a while since I have listened to such a full sounded pop cd such as this. I am very impressed with the album production. Everything is so clean and the guitars are very crisp with the distortion and clean levels. Not to mention the pounding kick drum and bass that drives the rhythm for all the songs. One of the things I love most about Sherwood’s music is the style and feel. They are a pop band that gives off a very happy vibe, unlike most of the depressing emotional pop songs of bands popular in this indie internet scene.

The album kicks off with their single “Song In My Head”, which starts off as a slow song but kick in with the keys and turns into an upbeat pop rock song. The next few tracks have the similar style, which are upbeat and filled with catchy melodic choruses. Then there is “Home”, which slows it down with a hard punching emotional chorus. Then the cd changes up with songs like “Alley Cat” with a lot of key-created drumbeats and soft vocals. For those of you who are familiar with the bands “Summer EP” released on Absolutepunk.net last summer, you will notice three songs from it like “Middle Of The Night”, “The Only Song”, and the softer closing album track “I’m Asking Her To Stay”.

Overall this band has really manage to impress me more than I thought they could. If you are into classic pop rock songs this is definitely the album for you. Even if you aren’t still give it a try, because it just might convert you to a new style of music. This is definitely going down for my nominations of Top Ten albums of the year. Sherwood is a fun rock band that will not only inspire future bands of this genre, but also change the face of indie music all together.

Standout Tracks
“For The Longest Time”, “Middle Of The Night”, “Song In My Head”, “The Only Song”

Tracklisting
1. Song In My Head
2. The Best In Me
3. Middle Of The Night
4. For The Longest Time
5. Home
6. Alley Cat
7. Give Up!
8. Never Ready To Leave
9. The Only Song
10. Alive
11. The Simple Life
12. A Different Light
13. I’m Asking Her To Stay