Member Since: 28/06/2006
Band Website: http://www.goodbyestereo.com
Band Members: Paul Mah :: Guitar and Vocals
LIVE BAND
Daniel West :: Keys
Dave Clark :: Drums and Vocals
Andrew Vincent :: Bass
Adam Cameron :: Guitars and Vocals
BOOKINGS
Mobile 0418 302 422
Email [email protected]
Influences: Copeland :: Coldplay :: Damien Rice :: Beck :: Jimmy Eat World :: The Mabels :: Death Cab for Cutie :: Something for Kate :: Ben Lee :: Missy Higgins :: Dashboard Confessional :: Ryan Adams :: Ben Harper
Sounds Like:
Goodbye Stereo ~ This is Life
Rhythms Magazine January 2008
Written by Martin Jones.
“Apparently its taken singer/song writer Paul Mah a decade to gather the material and means to get a substantial selection of his songs on disc and out into the big wide world. That would certainly explain the maturity in his singing and songwriting.
I guess you'd be tempted to put Mah's work under the Goodbye Stereo moniker in the dreaded "acoustic chill-out" category, such are the soothing effects of his gentle vocals and lilting meodies. At it's worst, This is Life may be guilty of being a little too pretty and earnest for its own good.
But look a little closer and you'll discover a musical eloquence and, most importantly, integrity to this collection that are reminiscent of softly spoken guitar based singer songwriters like Elliot Smith or even our own Art of Fighting.
Epicure's Heath McCurdy is responsible for the pretty piano and percussion that lift's Mah's vocal and guitar creations into the radio friendly realm, adding just enough guts so that the songs would not seem to sonically meek on FM radio. While, on the one hand, that enhances the chance that This is Life will get to radio, it also polishes off a few of the rougher edges that would have given it a little more personality.
The mini-albums six tracks are all exquisite acoustic pop songs "Autumn Lullaby" boasting a chorus dramatic enough to propel it to TV series soundtrack potential, and “Come home soon” and “This is Life” unwinding like a walk down a country lane on a drzzly day”
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PHYSICAL
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