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Reviews - Aram - Creative Loafing Online

The music resembles the organ-warmed adult rock throwback like that of the Wallflowers, or perhaps even Steely Dan – Aram is another gentleman loser, with many tales of love lost and love thought lost but never truly attained. He can be a cockeyed romantic that defiantly bucks the odds and the obvious – blithe spirits who don't notice him (“Bluefish”, “Serendipity”) and “best” friends that aren't looking to him for anything more (“Dogs”). Life doesn't give him much better than love, as he talks openly about lack of success in music (“November”) and an indifferent family (“Rocket Heroes”). The tone here rarely changes – Aram talks of how the sun never shines on the “Bigger Highway,” but his songs don't seem inspired by better weather on the back roads either.

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