author: TLK
I agree that this is not Weezer, but it does have what I love from Weezer with a maturity to it that makes me love it. Track #1 is my favorite!
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author: Micah
Great tunes, great melodies, great production, great first album. Steve is going to be someone to watch as he continues his career in music. All of these tunes are well written pop songs at heart mixed with Steve's own unique twists added to them. Pick this one up for sure.
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Great First Album
author: everythingnotrelated.com
This small collection of songs, including a cover of The Magnetic Fields' Book Of Love, is a fantastic, sometimes folky, foray into literate pop. The original songs prove quickly that young Steve has the talent and creativity to produce even more great music. Three cheers! I want a girlfriend with a record collection like that!
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well-oiled, deftly composed power pop
author: http://www.confabulators.com
One gets the feeling that the almost exclusively minimalist approach to instrumentation used on this EP might seem out of place elsewhere—but throughout the course of its seven appetizing tracks, all but one of which ring in under four minutes, minimalism proves to be an approach that could not have been implemented more perfectly. Yes, even when the backing band kicks in with a solo or a second layer of noise, what the listener hears is more (or less?) than noise—this is the type of well-oiled, deftly composed power pop with which literary, geeky kids fell in love in the glory days of groups like Weezer. Without making the now obligatory snide remarks about the career arc of Weezer, I think it’s safe to say that many miss the honesty and angry innocence of the early days of that Weezer sound. Well, allow me to be the first reviewer to say that Steve Goldberg is not the solution to your Weezer craving. Did you think I was about to say that Steve Goldberg takes me back to those days? In truth, he does. But as in most cases, there’s a lot more to it than that, and I would be lax to send you off expecting Weezer. There are a few things I can guarantee you will take away from this album—and all of them are one hundred percent original Steve Goldberg.
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