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		<title>Almost Calm: Visitor by onelinedrawing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't know why Jonah can't seem to settle down with a band, but despite the number of people he has worked with and the amount of adaptation that requires, he has managed to impress in a number of different genres. This album is more solo-acoustic than New End Original or Far, but it is a prime example of the quality that goes into Jonah Matranga's music endeavors.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know why <a title="Jonah Matranga" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jonah+Matranga" target="_blank">Jonah</a> can&#8217;t seem to settle down with a band, but despite the number of people he has worked with and the amount of adaptation that requires, he has managed to impress in a number of different genres. This album is more solo-<a title="Tag: Acoustic" href="http://futurespassed.com/reviews/tag/acoustic/" target="_self">acoustic</a> than <a title="New End Original on Last.FM" href="http://www.last.fm/music/New+End+Original" target="_blank">New End Original</a> or <a title="Far's Web Site" href="http://www.thebandfar.com/" target="_blank">Far</a>, but it is a prime example of the quality that goes into Jonah Matranga&#8217;s music endeavors.</p>
<p><a href="http://futurespassed.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/onelinedrawing-visitor.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-443" title="onelinedrawing Visitor" src="http://futurespassed.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/onelinedrawing-visitor.jpg" alt="Visitor by onelinedrawing" width="190" height="190" /></a>The beginning of the entire <em><a title="Visitor on Last.FM" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Onelinedrawing/Visitor" target="_blank">Visitor</a></em> album starts out with an almost cliché feedback intro, but it doesn&#8217;t feel tacky in the context of the song. The feedback sound reappears throughout the rest it in appropriate parts as it builds up emotionally. I wouldn&#8217;t have picked a different song to start out with, though; it&#8217;s a great example of what you&#8217;ll be hearing in the rest of the album. &#8220;Bitte Ein Kuss&#8221; picks things up a bit, and introduces the drum machine, known as Are Too for aesthetic reasons. &#8220;But It Was Close&#8221; has similar instrumentation to the opening track, but with a piano coming in near the end to help build up the ending.</p>
<p>&#8220;Smile&#8221; almost stands out too much on this album. It&#8217;s a great song, but it&#8217;s the only blatantly &#8220;happy&#8221; song on the album. It&#8217;s the only thing that notably breaks up the flow of the entire album, but if you have to do that on an album, this is how it&#8217;s done. Are Too comes back for drum machine duty on &#8220;Perfect Pair&#8221; as well, and is accompanied by an interesting <a title="Tag: Lo-Fi" href="http://futurespassed.com/reviews/tag/lo-fi/" target="_self">lo-fi</a> acoustic guitar track. &#8220;Candle Song&#8221; is another acoustic track like &#8220;But It Was Close&#8221; or &#8220;Why Are We Fighting&#8221;; one of the less notable songs on the album, but not a track to skip.</p>
<p><a href="http://futurespassed.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/jonah-matranga-live.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-448" title="jonah-matranga-live" src="http://futurespassed.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/jonah-matranga-live.jpg" alt="" width="196" height="215" /></a>&#8220;Yr Letter&#8221; appears to be a fan favorite, and possibly the emotionally strongest song on the album. It&#8217;s also one of the few songs on this album that sounds better live (There&#8217;s quite a powerful rendition on Jonah&#8217;s CD/DVD <a title="There's A Lot In Here on Last.FM" href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jonah+Matranga/There's+A+Lot+In+Here" target="_blank"><em>There&#8217;s A Lot In Here</em></a>), but the studio version isn&#8217;t lacking much. &#8220;Visitor&#8221; is the only track I don&#8217;t like much on the album; it&#8217;s short, and there are noises in the background that aren&#8217;t particularly musical, though they aren&#8217;t too distracting. The lyrics are interesting, but short enough to make you wonder if it was added for the sake of a longer track list.</p>
<p>Next comes my personal favorite song from the album, &#8220;Softbelly&#8221;, which has the most appealing chilled-out guitar playing on the album. The final track, &#8220;Sixes&#8221;, isn&#8217;t too far behind in that category, either. The outtro to this song would have made a great ending to just about any album, but it finishes this album particularly well, like you have reached the end of a journey, and if you listened to <em>Visitor</em> from start to finish, you have.
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