Sound of Urchin - You are the Best
Album Review
By: Marcus Owens

Who are you, little Sound Of Urchin? Are you rap-metal? Ween fans? Are you jam rock? Well, whatever you are, you manage to present a little of every genre on your debut RCA release, "You are the Best," and you even pull off being good at most of it. If one were to go through and listen to the first 30 seconds of every song from Urchin's latest release, it would most likely be described as a sonic melting-pot with way too many cooks standing over it. However, upon closer examination-several closer examinations-the album begins to listen as a more coherent aural cornucopia. If you hate any particular type of music, then Urchin's latest release might not be for you. If you would like a band that all but pokes fun at every genre of music through their nonsensical lyrics and bouncy melodies and rhythms, then it is. If you're somewhere in between, buy it anyway. "You are the Best" entered my cd player first a few weeks ago, and since it has been in with the other multitude of albums in rotation pretty frequently. You can listen to this record many times, and find something new about it every time, its great like that-kind of like. well a cake. with layers. or parfait. or an onion. But, enough children's movie references, the bottom line comes here: while Urchin may be a slut to genres-skipping around faster than Pamela Lee whatever-she-is-now on crack-the album is a somewhat refreshing tour of the way music can be when a band learns to stop taking itself so seriously that it writes trite lyrics about things like kryptonite. In case you haven't gotten it by now, Urchin takes risks, succeeds, and give me that fuzzy feeling that I love so much in my tummy-the feeling of listening to some real decent music.

- Marcus Owens
bandchat.org Correspondent

-For more information on The Sound of Urchin, visit their webpage at http://www.soundofurchin.com.