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Reviews - Clyde Wrenn - Cosmik Debris

The first twenty seconds of this CD weren't too promising. Sounded like any of a hundred dust-covered independent singer/songwriter CDs in a box in the back room here. Then something started to come through: textures. Clyde Wrenn seems to understand how to build drama in a song with empty spaces, stark sounds, surprising lyrical turns and unexpected instrumentation. In short order I was hooked on this sweet little mood piece, floating along the textured dreamscape of "I Won't Do It Again" and bouncing to the kicky and unusual "Settle Down." There are a lot of songwriters out there making CDs of their own versions of Americana-esque acousti-folk-dream-pop. No, seriously, there are. Very few of them are even half this interesting. Clyde Wrenn's definitely got something going on here. (Surprise Truck Entertainment: PO Box 4077 Hollywood, CA 90078-4077.)

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