This is one of the most unique albums I’ve heard this year and I mean that in a very good way. Pebaluna is a two person band featuring Lauren Coleman and Matt Embree, it takes elements of indie, folk, soul, country, Americana, and a bit of R&B and throws it together for an incredible ten song album. This is the band’s first album but it sounds like they’ve been at it for a long time. Every song on here is just fucking perfect. With some you get more of above mentioned elements than others so it adds a great mix between the songs. They all flow together and have the same type of sound while having each song be different on its own. This album is the perfect album to just sit back and relax to, if work or some other life bullshit is stressing you out just sit back and hang out with Pebaluna. If you like music from any of the stuff that is comprised for this band I strongly urge you to check this album out, I’m pretty sure this is going on a best of list at the end of the year.
1. All Falling Down
2. No, I Can’t
3. Sister Sara
4. Carny Life
5. Baby, What’s Wrong?
6. Siren Song
7. Honey
8. Hopeless
9. Please Me
10. Sunshine Lullaby
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Dr. Emmett Brown must have had a hand is producing this album because it is very capable of time travel. I’m not sure how or where but I think they fitted a flux capacitor on the CD somewhere. Released September 2008 its forty years behind on the times, and this I say as a high compliment. If you just popped this in the CD player and told me it was released in 1968 I would have believed you, no question. The only two things that don’t quite fit in with that old Motown sound is the opening line on “Let’s Take a Walk” (I don’t think they’d allow that back then) and the “Oh Girl [remix]” featuring Jay-Z. Of which the “Oh Girl [remix]” is probably the only partly skippable song on the album, this I blame Jay-Z for. I purchased this CD and it stayed locked solid in my CD player for three days straight, I’ve listened to it non-stop six times in a row and it’s still great. Raphael Saadiq’s fourth studio album and he captures that old Soul, R&B, Motown sound without flaw. If you enjoy Gladys Knight & The Pips, Al Green, The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Delfonics, The Stylistics, or Stevie Wonder [whom the album features on a track] this album is all you. Go pick it up, you will not regret it.
