How many times have you put on a new CD only to find that every song sounds like the generic retread of something you’ve already heard a million times before? May I suggest Enter To Exit for relief? Fernando Viciconte sure knows how to grab and keep the listener’s attention. He obviously has a thing for The Beatles, as ascertained from the jaunty piano-driven “Everybody Knows,� (including distinctively Lennon vocals) as well and the George Harrison musicality of “Howard Hughes.� Fernando also has the unlikely knack of making even dire subjects come out hum-able; “One Trick Pony� concerns drugs, “Howard Hughes� warns a friend about becoming a modern day facsimile of the song subject, and “The Reluctant Deity� imagines the beginnings of a new religion over a plucky piano part. Fernando’s songs are able to make the listener feel both good and bad, simultaneously and Enter To Exit proves that the death of melody has been greatly exaggerated.
-Dan MacIntosh
Release date: June 13, 2006
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