Fiction Family Review

Released: Jan 20, 2009
Genre: Folk, Pop
Label: ATO Records / Lowercase People
Number Of Tracks: 12
Jon Foreman and Sean Watkins are a great combo for a group putting together a great album of acoustic songs, yet they have The Beatles sound in a couple songs.

Sound:	10
Lyrics:	9
Impression:	10
Overall rating:	9.3
Reviewer rating:	9.7
Users rating:	9
Votes:	7

overall: 9.7

Reviewed by: Switchfoot555, on may 19, 2009

Sound: Jon Foreman and Sean Watkins are a great combo for a group putting together a great album of acoustic songs, yet they have The Beatles sound in a couple songs. The first song "When She's Near" is really catchy and it gets in your head as soon as the first note is picked. These two guy's show there true talent with songs that are mostly picking and are pretty tough to figure out. Yet the sound goes from a Beatles type sound to Folk and Country which are really neat. // 10

Lyrics and Singing: The lyrics to almost every song on this album are about love and a girl and about being in love. A couple of the songs, such as "When She's Near","Not Sure", "Elements Combined", and "War in My Blood" are really songs that hit home with me because there is a girl that I feel about this way and are what I've tried to put down on paper my self. I'd say that the Sean Watkins song are actually better than the Jon Foreman songs, but overall I just love the album. // 9

Impression: Take it from me buy this album if your into acoustic songs. It is a great start for this duo and I hope they would put out another album in a couple years. It will have you listening over and over. And if some stole my iPod (I don't have the CD; if I bought I'd rather by the record and not the CD) then I would go Jet Li on them ('Cause you know it's my iPod I got Like a thousand songs on it). // 10

Comments

[b-linz117]

I would disagree that almost every song is about love (at least in the traditional sense of love). Songs like "We Ride," "Closer Than You Think," and "Mostly Prove Me Wrong" are not really about love at all. "Please Don't Call It Love" and "Betrayal" seem to be about the illusion of love rather than love itself. And I think the girl mentioned in "War In My Blood" is actually a metaphorical girl rather than an actual person. So I think there is a greater variety of songs than all of them being love songs.

I think this is a great album and I can't wait for these guys to make another one. My favorite songs are "Betrayal" and "We Ride."

[Dallen_007]

I thought the album wasn't very cohesive and I would have liked to hear some songs with both Sean and Jon instead of just a Jon song here and a Sean song there. Hearing them both work together would have been phenomenal. It still wasn't a bad album overall.

[rocker222]

yup its a review by a guy named swichfoot

[linds4lif]

I think Jon Foreman's songs are waaaay better than Sean's.....

[hurricaneherman]

I agree with linds4lif, Sean's voice is actually kind of
irritating to listen to. But that's me you can listen to the samples on itunes store and decide for yourself.