Summer at Shatter Creek
Absolutely Kosher
2003
Rating: 7.5 paper mags out of 10
The curiously named Summer at Shatter Creek is the work of one man, a Mr. Craig Gurwich, and what a man he is. I think we’ve all heard albums by "one man bands" that might be enjoyable, but sound exactly like you might expect when only one person is playing all of the music – very one dimensional, single personality-type stuff. Somehow Mr. Gurwich manages to transcend this phenomena, creating a very three dimensional sounding album that is just oozing electronics, but still sounds quite organic. There are lots of warm, classic sounding organs and keyboards along with the prerequisite drums, guitars, and whatnot. But the real story here is the man’s voice – and my god, what a voice it is. He possesses possibly my favorite falsetto since Jeff Lynne of ELO, and that’s not something to be taken lightly. I’ve heard and read people mentioning it in the same breath with words like "heavenly" and "angelic", and I’d be remiss to put up any sort of argument over the pairing.
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