I Just Want to Feel That Way
Ryan Smith
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Good Intentions | Ryan Smith | 3:15 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | This Is Not a Tragedy | Ryan Smith | 3:20 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Santa Cruz | Ryan Smith | 4:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | A Few Hundred Miles | Ryan Smith | 2:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | I Just Want to Feel That Way | Ryan Smith | 4:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Following the Ambulance Home | Ryan Smith | 3:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 6 Songs |
Recent Customer Reviews
Dark-themed one-man-band indie pop
by hyperboliumSmith’s latest is the best sort of homemade, project-studio indie pop. The arrangements of guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards are more like songwriter demos than polished major-label product, leaving the one-man-band productions to focused on Smith’s voice and lyrics. There are some novel instrumental touches, such as the retro-organ on “This is Not a Tragedy” and the moody low-string guitar on “Santa Cruz,” but they never upstage Smith’s lyrical mood. The edginess and experimentation of the backing sounds is similar to Smith’s previous release, Neil Avenue, but the subject matter skips past the jokiness of earlier works like “Girls With the Glasses” to darker, more imagination-driven places. Smith faces the mental fallout of a damaged relationship on the opening “Good Intentions” and the more dire consequences of a car crash on “Following the Ambulance Home.” Less accidental is the jilted groom of “Santa Cruz” whose downward spiral is documented from the bottom up with the clever lyrical device “you ain’t heard the worst of it yet.” The darkness turns to a wail with the title track’s mourning of a lost spouse, leaving the album’s only semi-bright spot as the half-hearted invitation in “A Few Hundred Miles.” Eric Broz has suggested Smith’s broken-hearted lyrics bring to mind Paul Westerberg (as does the reediness of Smith’s voice), but there’s a spooked emotion in these stories that edges past hurt, and it’s magnified by the discomforting nearness of Smith’s confessional style. 3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2009 hyperbolium dot com]
He just gets better and better
by ericbrozRyan Smith's new EP, "I Just Want To Feel That Way" is a bit darker in lyrical content, a bit more experimental in sound, a big stretch from the singer/songwriter/acoustic guitar he's often associated with, and in quite heavy rotation on my iPod these days. It also could be the best six Paul Westerberg songs that Paul Westerberg neither wrote nor recorded. That's a huge compliment (If you just said "Who?" just stop reading now and Google the genius that is Paul Westerberg, The Replacements, and head out and purchase his amazing solo work. Now. Really. Google. Now.).
Ryan's previous release, "Neil Avenue," is a long-time favorite, and as anyone who knows me knows the in-between single release "Girls With Glasses" knows that so could be my life story.
But with "I Just want To Feel That Way" Ryan shows he has grown as a songwriter, and musician, and is able to comfortably move away from the single six-string and incorporate multi-instrumental mixing, layering, and tracking, along with some noise and sound effects that really add to the darker lyrical context here.
Top Albums and Songs by Ryan Smith
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| 1 | Lord Reign in Me | Empty Me, Vol. 1 | 3:50 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | I Will Worship You | Empty Me, Vol. 1 | 3:26 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Breaking My Heart | Through & Through | 4:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | This Song | Through & Through | 4:02 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Desert Rose | Through & Through | 3:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
