Steve got the CD...DAMN!! Great stuff, you'll be getting regular airplay on my show, and when I take over the programming of the other hours, you'll be added to the list. Let me know of any future releases or if you tour in the south. Keep up the great work!! Wildman Steve WQNR-FM

The title, Steve Kirk Pop is, if anything, a relatively deceiving one. Classic pop is living underground , hanging around piss-soaked clubs and indie record stores, and modern “popular” music has been reduced to little more than a marketing plan drawn up to give the increasingly idiotic masses a sound track to “get jiggy” with on a Saturday night. Kirk has little in common with the former and nothing to say to the latter. Instead the title and the music contained inside suggests that this is what pop could be, if we were all willing to scrap the system of compartmentalization we’re all guilty of living by and start from scratch again. Why can’t prog rock and jazz and European folk and classical structures all be mixed together and still be called good? Kirk, an arranger first and a front man second, proves that structure can collide with dissonance, that oddball and beautiful can be married. Daring signature changes, fluid orchestral swells, off kilter phrasing, solid rock hooks, and understated vocals are all cobbled together to form a style of music that is both challenging and digestible. Even more fascinating is that while many of the arrangements are built for eight to ten pieces, there is never a wasted note or over-indulgent moment. Every tune has been thought out and constructed in a discernable brick-by-brick manner that makes repeat listening a requisite. Steve Kirk Pop is a terrific first effort from a guy who should prove to be a pretty formidable songwriter.

steve kirk is a long-standing club foot orchestra member that also works in creating music for commercial tv. on pop he combines the refined approach of a pop-rock scientist with the emancipating freedom of an avant-garde artist. his results are never merely quirky, but instead captivating, sophisticated and unexpected. these arrangements of horns and strings with extended instrumental passages make for compelling and unique listening. (4)