Ska bands are often labeled as sounding like [fill in the blank]
\nband and it is rare that they are able to establish their own
\nsound. One band trying to accomplish said action is the Orange
\nCounty Supertones, a six-piece Christian ska band. Although the
\nband members are shown on the cover of their latest CD, Chase The
\nSun, in dark suits and ties, there are other pictures of the band
\nhaving fun.<\/p>\n
And that’s the spirit the band was able to capture in the
\nstudio: fun.<\/p>\n
Sure, the songs all have an evangelical tone, like in my
\nfavorite “Away From You,” when vocalist Matt Morginsky ponders,
\n“Lord, I just don’t understand\/ this strange creature you call man\/
\nWho thinks he lives by his own hand\/ but I know\/ There’s no life
\naway from you.” That track in particular effortlessly combines
\nMorginsky’s comfortable vocal style with a strong rhythm section in
\nbassist Tony Terusa and drummer Jason Carson.<\/p>\n
Another strong track is the disc opener “One Voice.” Beginning
\nwith an extremely catchy trombone and trumpet reinforcement of the
\nguitar riff, Morginsky is once again at the forefront of the track
\nwith these lyrics: “And if we died to our selves\/ to come alive as
\nGod’s flesh\/ That makes us family.”<\/p>\n
“In Between” begins with a guitar anthem chord progression
\nbefore horn section Darren Mettler (trumpet) and Daniel Spencer
\n(trombone) come in with an interesting melody line. Terusa’s bass
\ngroove is subtle but toggles to a stronger presence when guitarist
\nBrian Johnson chimes in with his distorted anthem chord progression
\nin mid-song.<\/p>\n
Maybe this CD arrived at the precise moment that I was craving a
\nnew sound. Maybe it arrived when I was burned out on listening to
\nPantera and Dream Theater wannabes interspersed with the latest
\nslew of crappy live albums (who shall remain nameless – but if you
\nread this site regularly, you know who I’m talking about). Quite
\npossibly, it arrived as I wished for an end to the death metal crap
\nthat had been finding its way to my CD player.<\/p>\n
Whatever the case may be, and I haven’t quite resolved it in my
\nmind, Orange County Supertones are, despite any religious idealogy
\ndifferences, a strong and interesting band. The band’s spiritual
\nmessage is delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6243],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-36466","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-orange-county-supertones","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36466"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36466"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}