Albums
Forever Debts
2006
Genre: Pop
Release Date: 2006
By Joe Tangari
Reviewed September 26, 2006
Second album from the power-pop artist is a shade darker than its predecessor, but with sharply observed lyrics that don't so much tell stories as dig around in the feelings that well up during a story's climax.
Paul Schneider has such a perfect power-pop voice that I almost wonder if it was genetically engineered. It's very nasal, comes right from the top of the throat, and has just a little bit of grit-- it's like the Bomp!/Yellow Pills platonic ideal for singing voices. It would, however, be oversimplifying things to claim that Schneider's music is power-pop; I mean, it's pop, and it's got some punch, but he channels that voice into something decidedly modern where most power poppers check over their shoulders for cues from the 1960s and 70s.