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Artist: Phillip Phillips
Album: The World From The Side Of The Moon
Label: 19 Recordings/Interscope
Copyright: (C) 2012 19 Recordings, Inc.
Release Date: 2012
Genre: Pop
Encoder: LAME 3.98r
Bitrate: 258 kbps avg
Time: 45:25
Winner of the 11th season of American Idol — aka, the last season to feature Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez as judges — Phillip Phillips doesn’t strictly seem like apop star, probably because he doesn’t sing pop music. Phillips is in thrall to his idol Dave Matthews, patterning every little detail of his style after the jam band icon, borrowing the stuttering acoustic strums and elastic vocal phrasing, letting his folk-rock wander into jazz and smooth soul. So many elements of Phillips’ 2012 post-Idol debut The World from the Side of the Moon are taken from earlyDave Matthews Band albums it could easily be mistaken for a forgotten recordfrom 1997 or, worse, taken as a parody of DMB’s loose-limbed roots pop. Phillips favors both the loverman croon of Matthews (“Wanted Is Love,” “A Fool’s Dance”) and DMB’s raucous party tunes (“Get Up Get Down,” written in the style of “Ants Marching”), and, it has to be said, he nails his impression, getting each minor inflection precisely right. Consequently, The World from the Side of the Moon kinda sorta delivers upon Phillips’ promise: it is a streamlined, smoothed-outDave Matthews Band album, stripped of any of DMB’s idiosyncratic quirks,instrumental virtuosity, and love of the world “belly.” If you don’t listen closely, it goes down easy, but listening with just a slightly critical ear reveals those similarities as near farcical. Tellingly, the moments that veer away from DMB are those not written by Phillips — the post-Idol coronation song “Home” and “Gone Gone Gone,” both sounding a bit fresher and folkier — which is an indication that producers Drew Pearson and Gregg Wattenberg knew what it would take to sell this Matthews mash note to a wider audience.
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine /allmusic.com/
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine /allmusic.com/
Track List
01. Man On The Moon (3:35)
02. Home (3:30)
03. Gone, Gone, Gone (3:29)
04. Hold On (4:11)
05. Tell Me A Story (4:21)
06. Get Up Get Down (3:16)
07. Where We Came From (3:33)
08. Drive Me (3:48)
09. Wanted Is Love (3:46)
10. Can’t Go Wrong (3:37)
11. A Fool’s Dance (4:33)
12. So Easy (3:40)
01. Man On The Moon (3:35)
02. Home (3:30)
03. Gone, Gone, Gone (3:29)
04. Hold On (4:11)
05. Tell Me A Story (4:21)
06. Get Up Get Down (3:16)
07. Where We Came From (3:33)
08. Drive Me (3:48)
09. Wanted Is Love (3:46)
10. Can’t Go Wrong (3:37)
11. A Fool’s Dance (4:33)
12. So Easy (3:40)
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