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Rebecca Hart Crash & Strum
Just when you think the hideously pleasant sound of Dave Matthews had been purged from our heads like a Soviet dissident, Rebecca Hart has to come along and spoil the whole thing, by being essentially the female Dave with just an inch more bluesy-soul. And that’s something the world wasn’t clamoring for. If you were looking for an amiable pop album that you can hear without having to listen to, then you should be ecstatic. But then again, if that’s your motivation then you don’t deserve rock and roll. Crash & Strum is an all-on-the-surface record. Sure, there’s the obligatory Bush-bashing (“White Lie”) but the sound is whiny rather than impassioned, and only the emotive “Last Dance” has only real soul. Even when Hart declares that “this is the worst time/ on the black earth/ to be alive,” the melody still sounds like it would make a kickin’ soundtrack to your buddy’s barbeque. This is rock as commodity, as product. And there’s no excuse for that.
