This CD is such an un-classifiable work...it is filled with funk, rock, and jazz mixed into a blender. Positive messages, and hook-like choruses...this is one of the best CD's I have bought in the last year. A wonderful performer, O'Hara plays each performance, as if it were his last. Standout Tracks include "Hole in the Wall, Doe, Prettiest Corpse, and Don't Go Down" Take the Chilli Peppers, a little Sublime, Bob Marley, lounge Jazz, and blues and you just begin to get a taste of Brendan O Hara & The Humble Ones......grab a copy before it's too late.
-Justin Enco
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There's a new piano man in town, and like Billy Joel, New Jersey transplant and Hollywood resident Brendan O'Hara is a hopeful romantic. The singer-songwriter's band, which includes a boy guru who narrates poetically between songs, is called the Humble Ones; their newly released Perceptive Inception, a 20-song disc of lite-rock originals, tackles everything from the standard (falling in love) to the controversial (FCATs).

O'Hara writes all the tunes, sings, plays piano, even raps a bit. Jon Weiner (drums) and Billy B. Bowin (bass) join him on six of the 20 tracks; the rest are solo affairs. Undiluted and unplugged, O'Hara's piano is clean, fluid, and versatile, his singing euphoric and commanding. Given his jazzy touch, Van Morrison comparisons are inevitable, but O'Hara's voice is graver. Pensive, piano-driven gems include the ragtime "Ms. Susie" -- one of many love songs on the disc -- and the early-Joel-sounding "Red, White and Blues," a protest-lament for war dead.

The funky, easygoing "À la Mode" is the album's catchiest tune. Here, O'Hara gets philosophical in a nonsensical sort of way, singing: "Some people say it's about getting your cake and eating it too/I got to say it's paving my own way/It's making my own road/Who likes cake anyway?/Give me that good old apple pie à la mode."
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After listening to this cd I have become emotionally dependant of it. I need to hear it at least once a day! It fits every mood and every occasion in my life. Upbeat and mellow all at the same time.
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a CD that  made me move and made me think.
this album has all the excitement of a live rock and roll show mixed with jazz vibe and songs that you can’t stop sinning. then brings you back home with clever heartfelt folk and lyrical perfection.

a CD worth it’s weight in gold.
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