Mark Growden

Add Date: February 1

Artist: Mark Growden

Album: Lose Me in the Sand

Label: Porto Franco

Genre: Rock, country

Comments: From the label: "[Mark Growden's] music moves with a natural flow reminiscent of the patterned hushes in bird trills and blowing winds. Lose Me in the Sand croons, howls, stutters, laughs, and runs, but always around a central stillness. Growden uses music to carve out silences most of us don't pause to hear."

While this comment is pretty accurate of Growden's Lose Me In The Sand, I take it less as praise for inventiveness and more as an isolating statement. The album has a quality of only being worth hearing while camping or while trying to channel your inner-cliche cowboy. The music is good, albeit a little underwhelming, but lacks the passion or thoughtfulness needed for good, lasting country.