Saigon Kick Lead Vocalist Matt Kramer solo debut album "War & Peas"

Description: Artist direct product! Official Saigon Kick Lead Vocalist Matt Kramer's critically acclaimed solo debut album "War & Peas" is a hard rock classic. This artistic rock collection of songs is Matt's self produced solo effort. This is a new cd not autographed by Matt. Please see our other listings for autographed copies.Review on BRAVEWORDS. COM - Mr. Kramer, of course, was the slightly edgy, lead-singing shaman for the vastly under-rated Florida band Saigon Kick, a sparkling one hit wonder that can succinctly be described as a cross between the first wave of alternative, circa '87, '88 and hair metal. They ruled, and you should own at least the first three. Matt's back now with his debut solo CD, and hey, it ain't cheap-feeling (past the awful cover art and title), nor embarrassing, nor too crazy a departure, nor badly recorded. Fact is, War & Peas is an artful, slashing, mostly hard rocking effort that sounds like a more adventuresome, loopy Saigon Kick with solid grinding musical performances every bit as top notch as the old band. Up top deck, Matt wears a number of vocal chapeaus, caps, tams and fedoras, a little Bowie here, Robert Smith there, hints of Radiohead... it's sometimes a little much, affected, thespian and histrionic. But the technicolourful, witty, perceptive, clearly enunciated lyrics and the sturdiness of the songs charm you right back into the world of this guy. I'm getting a Wildhearts, King's X, Cheap Trick, Mike Tramp, mixed with Brit Pop and new rock vibe. Welcome back, oh free an' easy troubadour... by Martin Popoff Review by Sun Sentinal South Florida Daily paper - Rock singer Matt Kramer of Saigon Kick fame has released a solo album, his first since leaving the South Florida-bred metal band. He is celebrating the new project with a performance tonight at Fort Lauderdale's Factory, 2674 E. Oakland Park Blvd. War and Peas, on Kramer's own Lascivious Records, is a thoroughly homegrown project. It was recorded in Miami in the past several months with area musicians, and produced and engineered by the frontman himself. Kramer does not make any dramatic breaks with his past here; the voice still ranges from stoned-out wail to pretty growl. But songs, including Soul Star and Goodbye to All Tomorrows, put him in a deliberately roughed-up, less-polished setting than the heavy-metal chamber his voice occupied on The Lizard, the 1992 Saigon Kick album that produced a hit power ballad, Love Is on the Way. If anything, War and Peas recalls Saigon Kick's self-titled 1988 major-label debut, an album with fewer Queen-sized layers of vocal harmony and more stripped-down glam-rock energy. Kramer has always been a bit of a New York Doll at heart, and the seedy-vainglorious charm of his singing is more apparent than ever on War and Peas. Review by MELODICROCK - Saigon Kick vocalist Matt Kramer is back with a solo album released of his own accord. War & Peas isn't musically matched with his former band, but retains the familiar semi-alternative air that band always had about them. If Matt was capable of recording a straight up hard rock album - this would be it. That said, this still relies on an alternative/modern heavy rock slant, but the nature of the songs allows more instant likeability in them and with repeat listens, hooks and melodies become better known. As fans will attest to, Matt's got a unique voice, so new listeners should take that into mind. Established fans will eat this up. A solid and rocking album.

Price: 15 USD

Location: Miami, Florida

End Time: 2024-08-22T00:56:13.000Z

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