The CD is about average in what it achieves, what it aims to achieve isĬonsiderably more difficult than most of today's a cappella. The songs areĬonsistent, the tone lightly covered, and the blend heady. The Conn Artists are, in reality, a small glee club. It sounds like every song was a live, stereo Multing, doubling, sweetening, delays, pitch correction, or evenīoard-mixed dynamics. Isn't boomy, the effects are nearly non-existent, there's no perceivable In fact, that's the key here: it's not contemporary at all. Their enjoyment of the music overcomes their less-than-professionalįirst Offense sounds like few contemporary a cappella releases. Particularly soulful or gritty they're not. The recording is like the Brechtian stage: raw andĮxposed, yet intellectual and complex. These seven well-post-college guys deliver a jazzy, The Conn Artists' First Offense is a throwback to a simpler day
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