Another Option
The Great Walk (Album)
In the overall aspect of rock music, a listener will always find out about that one band out of the other five bands they find who sound influenced by music other than rock. I personally don’t think that it’s intentional, but there are certain bands emerging and use a lot of rhythmic and vocal aspects from artists in the R&B and Soul genres.
In the local scene a perfect example of this is Another Option (Westport, Massachusetts). Another Option is doing well at the moment. They’re currently on Warped Tour 2010. Not to mention that they're on the entire Warped Tour. Last but not least, they released an EP, The Great Walk.
My overall outlook on this EP is that it’s not too often where a listener can find a 5 song EP and have it be an elaborate play from beginning to end. For anyone that likes being on their feet for what will happen next, The Great Walk will make you run the marathon (analogically speaking of course).
To start off this “story,” the first song is “Verrazano,” which is considered the introduction. The beginning of the song has an old school sample of soul singing and it has this beautiful; yet distorted effect to it. The end result of that made the whole song in general classier. After the sample is finished, this guitar riff comes in and it has this blues type of approach where it feels like the guitar is conveying a verbal message to the listener. The sample also gives the listener the assumption on how the singe is going to sound like. In this instance, the singer is just very melodic and soulful at the same time.
My favorite song off this album hands down goes to “Midwestern Self Realization,” which is considered the intermission for The Great Walk. The atmosphere of the song goes perfectly for something such as the intermission. The rest of the EP has a lot more emphasis into their passion of their imagery. This song has more of the laid back image. An example is the guitar riff being laid back, but at the same time, captivating the audience to not lose interest just like a play.
To end it all off, “Iowa By The Sea” is the last song worth listening to. Ever noticed how in most plays or recitals the act after the intermission is always longer than the act before it. In this case, “Iowa By The Sea” is over 6 minutes long. Metaphorically speaking, the song has this “mission accomplished” after proceeding through “The Great Walk.” In broadways, there are these epic endings where everybody in the cast sings and what not. In this case, the ending is primarily an instrumental with addition to some lyrics. It also has a girl singing on a lot of the song in the end which sounds soothing and natural.
To Check Out Their Music
http://www.myspace.com/anotheroption
Catch them on Warped Tour under Focus Records
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