Five
Easy Pieces Replay
Button is what Five Easy Pieces should have called their self-titled
debut album. Because if you get off on the first song, the country-rock
barn-burner "Lovers," and you're gonna want to ride
this thing till the closing charmer, "Something to Believe,"
and then...replay. An L.A.-based band, Five Easy Pieces have
emerged with what may very well be the best debut album of 1998.
It's a powerful roots-oriented record filled with double-barreled
rock & roll, country and folk influences. This record is
so fully realized that it could easily pass for a great second
or third record by any other fine band. The record has a lot
of diversity, and really keeps you on your toes. The record
also has a probable smash-hit single in "Stationary Poets,"
with a great riff and incredible momentum and textures. It's
joyous rock & roll that will walk your street with a confident
swagger. The band's primary songwriters, Marc Dauer and Jay
Schwartz are fine craftsmen, and lay their emotions bare with
a fine sense of spontaneity and dry humor that is an absolutely
perfect marriage to the band's loose-limbed approach. Five Easy
Pieces truly are the thinking man's bar band. ~ Matthew Greenwald,
All Music Guide
