Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.Much-anticipated by diehard fans of guitar-based pop music, and especially the rabid cult following of the fractured early-90s pop outfit Jellyfish, Meaningless delivers.Its impossible to deny that Brion s collaborations have had an effect on him; the influence of Mann is especially strong here (in fact, she co-wrote the jazzy I Believe Shes Lying), although Brion surpasses the singersongwriter tag by pulling in many of his power pop roots (a cover of Cheap Trick s Voices closes the album) and his diverse background in pop music.
It could be said that Meaningless cops the style of many of those whom Brion has collaborated with, but in reality it is a representation of the purest form of what Brion has given to the production of those other artists work. Only on the now-legendary (and extremely out-of-print) 1994 Grays album Ro Sham Bo did he take lead vocal and writing credits. That project imploded largely because the premise -- four solo artists who share a band together -- was almost too ambitious. And while Jason Falkner, the most obvious frontman of the group, went on to release some enjoyable solo albums, Brion continued on with work mostly as a multi-instrumentalist or a producer. He became somewhat of a legend among the power pop underground, on par with former Jellyfish frontman Andy Sturmer, constantly backing other deserving artists but never releasing any albums himself. ![]() Given that it is self-released on Brion s Straight to Cut-Out records, he seemed to feel the record would fail. Thats not to say that Brion will be an immediate breakout success of the pop world, because that, too, is unlikely. But Meaningless is a lovely, catchy, and personal pop album on par with (and in many cases, superior to) the albums and artists that he has worked with in the past. ![]() The albums opener, the personal Gotta Start Somewhere, beckons that I might not have anything to offer youI might not have anything to say thats newBut youve gotta start somewhere.
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