| To me, the song is powerful. Most people crave emotion of any kind. "If I can feel it bring it on." And Abbie is very good at arranging his music in a way that is extremely captivating. He plays everything on this track but the bass (which is played by Mark Beck.) So that's keyboard, piano, guitar (acoustic) and drums (though they sound somewhat like they where mixed on a machine because of there perfect exactness)... oh and let's not forget his haunting vocals. Abbie's voice is very influenced by the croonings of the late Jeff Buckley. His voice hits those high pitches (or at least shoots for them) and he has that same yearning, tortured soul thing going on. When asked why he creates music of this nature Abbie replied, "I was just trying to make music for myself to escape to." The song starts off with a dreary sounding keyboard, picks up with a very light set of drums (or drum machine) and then brings on the first lyrics which state right off the bat, "I don't believe in me. Neither should you." The verses have a cyclic way of going; starting slow and building up a bit with harder guitar and rougher vocals and then calming down. They do this about twice before the major climaxes of the piece; the choruses, which in and of themselves have many changes going on. Some of my favorite parts of the chorus are the female back up vocals. The recording quality is a bit low-fi but very well recorded considering it was done on a Roland 8 track. IF your into good sounding, simplistically recorded stuff. This is a nice example of how to pull it off. Humble pie is depressing, yes, but it's really much more than that. It's very human. You can listen to this song and others at Huxley's Garageband page where he has been listed in the top 10 in Alternative Pop for what seems like forever. Recommended for anyone whose pull toward music is immersed in emotion, Humble pie makes the grade. Signing off
- Courtney
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