Soleil Moon’s third album, Warrior, is certainly a fish on a bicycle. Speaking of recovery, the album immediately proceeds to kick back and puff-puff with the final track, “420,” a light-hearted little exploration of recreation. It is unclear if the lyrics pertain to returning from actual war, or if the struggle and recovery serve as some other metaphor. This remains unbroken until the titular track, “Warrior,” which features some of the most interesting arrangements on the album. At first, it is hard to know what to make of this little tune, but after about the third listen, it makes you want to get up out of your seat and clap your hands on the 2 and the 4.Īlthough it would be fair say the album falls into any sort of rut from here, it does seem to find a groove and stay there through several songs close to the traditional Soleil Moon format, although with more guitar-driven rock feeling than found on previous albums. Right down to the beats, the two-part vocal interplays, the ambient synth bits, the wah pedal single-coil guitar, and the contemporary drum machine fills. The third track, “You and I” (no relation to “You and Me” from their debut album), may actually be the most compositionally interesting track on the album. Just when we think we have heard every rhyme in the lyricist’s handbook, we get to hear shifter rhymed with lifter.
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All the guitar lead melodies are well-executed with good tone, and we even get some quarter mile burnout revs in the middle of the song. The verses have a certain Springsteen/Joel sort of “remember the good old days” lyrical quality, but the chorus still feels good in a happy major key sort of way. The song is an interesting blend of acoustic and electric guitars, and keyboards to create a texture which, while a far cry from being metal, is much more guitar-driven than the band’s previous material. OK, the song does not go into that much detail, but we can tell from the way it’s talked about that it’s a sweet ride, Holley carb or no. In fairness, the album struts out with a hard-box of smokes rolled up in its white tee-shirt sleeve with the introductory song, “72 Camaro,” an homage to a man’s second-gen F-body and its snarling beast of a 396 big block V8.
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The album is marketed as melodic rock, and while it is certainly both of those things, the band does not stray far from its adult pop radio roots.
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Even when Chi-Town native Larry King has a full plate with professional voice and composition work in commercial TV and radio, the Soleil Moon project remains front and center among his list of loves, and the new album Warrior reflects this, along with the time and care put into each album.
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Although the band’s sound, driven by founder-singer Larry King (no relation to CNN for the full hour, or any hour) was certainly in keeping with the scene of Aaron Neville and solo Phil Collins, they crafted a sound with a unique fusion of blues, jazz, and R&B influences, perhaps comparable to the way Hall and Oates found a unique soul-pop sound in the 80s. Soleil Moon (no relation to Punky) made a substantial mark on the contemporary adult pop scene with their debut in 2000, a year when most radio stations of that format were spinning Michael Bolton, Celine Dion, George Michael, and Sheryl Crow. In this case, that album is entitled Warrior, and this third album marks a moment of new exploration for the band. In twenty years, adult contemporary artist Soleil Moon has only had two album releases, so it is a momentous occasion for the band when a new album is finished.