A California folk troubadour, Joel Cuzzi has spent quite a bit of time around the punk scene, and Footprints<\/i> is even dedicated to Tony Sly of No Use For A Name fame. Sadly and very unexpectedly, Sly passed away in 2012, tragically ending the bond that carried the two across several tours and even had Cuzzi playing on several of Sly’s solo albums. <\/p>\n
\u201cHelp Is On The Way\u201d starts the record with quaint keys before a blast of acoustic strumming and vocal harmonies enter the lush, singer-songwriter setting, and \u201cBread And Water\u201d follows with a calmer setting and campfire-esque folk sounds, where expressive vocals from his contributors unfold with much heartfelt emotion.<\/p>\n
Near the middle, \u201cShortest Pier\u201d is nearly a cappella with just a lone acoustic guitar lightly contributing, while \u201cMachinations\u201d leaves vocals out of the equation completely with six string acrobatics. This then goes right into one of the fullest tunes present, the louder \u201cThe Sunrise,\u201d where a subtle crunch and gritty approach reveals some very obvious punk attitude in the album highlight.<\/p>\n
Towards the end, \u201cRetreat\u201d brings us some of the best vocal harmonies, and many voices converge on the rhythmic and playful \u201cIn The Arms Of Strangers.\u201d \u201cMade To Last\u201d ends the listen with much sincerity in a tune very obviously written about Tony Sly’s legacy and serves as an ideal exit to this touching listen. <\/p>\n
Cuzzi takes help from Jared Stinson of Sic Waiting and Morty Lopez of The Kegels, and their vocal work \u2013 along with Cuzzi’s sturdy pipes and forthright song craft \u2013 make Footprints<\/i> an intimate, thoughtful, and extremely cautious listen that fans of the more forceful side of folk music will certainly appreciate. It’s also a good time for aging punks who traded their Doc Martens in for New Balance shoes and sing the praises of Tim Barry, Chuck Ragan, and Corey Branan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10459],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-45781","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-joel-cuzzi","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45781","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45781"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}