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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Dan Ferrari

Written by A.L. Harper
Published December 13, 2007

Dan Ferrari may be the saving grace of pop music. His fresh, upbeat, catchy sound, intimate, heart-felt lyrics, faultless musicianship and emotive vocals are everything pop music should be. In these days of homogeneous, artistically void pop he is the fresh breeze you have been waiting for. This winner of the Abe Olman Songwriting Scholarship Award 2007 and a finalist in the New York Songwriters Circle Songwriting contest, for his song “Heard From You” – which features on his new album Don’t Let it Fall --is the next big thing in the pop-world.

Dan looking hotThe 25-year-old New Jersey native’s sound is both pop and rock and his new album Don’t Let it Fall, is resplendent with harmonies and melodies, lustful, deeply personal lyrics, and passionate, engagingly honest vocals. Love songs filled with such fresh pain, longing, and sensual loss that you would be forgiven for thinking it was just yesterday she walked out. Even with his enviable vocal abilities it’s Ferrari’s compellingly emotional lyrics that will keep you listening.

Ferrari’s talent lies in painting a stirring and deeply personal portrait of his life, mostly his love life, that is all at once libidinous and winsome, passionate and friendly. You get a glimpse inside the painful heart of someone coming to terms with love lost, and desire through his songs, including title track “Don’t Let it Fall”; “I wish I was the smile dancing on your lips/ I wish was the t-shirt lying across your skin/ I wish was the button on your favourite pair of jeans/ so close to you, there’s nowhere I’d rather be”. Also expertly woven through second track “Never Not Want You”; “I’ve tried so hard to break free, but I’ll never not want you/ I wait for you to come back to me, I’ll never not want you/ I reach out for help but I’ll never not want you/ I’ve tried to love someone else but I’ll never not want you”.

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How does this thing work againI'm a writer and music journalist originally from Salt Lake City, but now living in Scotland. I was a Punk/Goth in the '80s and these artistic influences have stayed with me; although a love of Chopin, chamber music, and Spanish guitar would seem to belie this. I am the managing editor for AllThingsGirl.com, assistant music editor at Blogcritics.org, staff writer for a gay men's magazine based in Edinburgh, and a freelance writer.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Dan Ferrari
Published: December 13, 2007
Type: Review
Section: Music
Filed Under: Music: Indie Rock, Music: Pop, Review
Part of a feature: Band of the Week
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