Mick doesn't only interview, he was a writer for many publications, the most notable being Bucketfull Of Brains. He makes his writing debut for I Don't Hear A Single with a review of Marc Ribler's splendid new album...............................
You want some smart, beautifully crafted and utterly beguiling guitar pop to bring much needed sunshine to your heart and a unstoppable smile to your mind? Then look no further than Marc Ribler’s new album, the glory to behold that is The Whole World Awaits You.
From the very start you know you’re in for a musical treat of the highest order and over the dozen tunes delivered with such attractive aplomb, Ribler never once drops the ball or fails to deliver anything less than wonderful.
What a talent the man is in every department. His sweet honey and personable voice is exactly right, a beloved friend to your ears from the opening song that makes you want to listen to the words dancing over and around all this marvellous music.
Fortunately he is no slouch when it comes to engaging lyrical invention and the songs are lovely, engaging and intelligent, full of clever ideas. Sweet entertaining satire and intelligent heartfelt imagination to nourish the soul. Ribler seems like a very fine person, warm and engaging, some one you’d be happy to call a friend
Musically the album is masterfully uncluttered, yet full of perfectly placed rich detail to curl the toes of every true music connoisseur out there. The man is a classic old school guitarist in that he has an individual trademark sound that makes him unmistakably Ribler and no one else.
That sound is soaring bright and blazing, the guitar breaks are gorgeous and impressively majestic and your heart starts to lift when you know they are coming to take your breath away. Finding this gem of an album takes me back twenty years or so to those glory days. Days when perfect albums like Brad Jones's Gilt Flake, Brian Stevens's Prettier That You or The Maggies' Homesick would drop into your lap from nowhere
Albums that captivated you for weeks at a time to the exclusion of everything else. I just cant stop playing this delightful record, over and over and over. I just love it and so will you I am sure. Highly Recommended!
You can listen to and buy the album here.
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