Greg Mendez - Beauty Land [CD] Evanescence Holding on to Smoke

Holding on to Smoke

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Whether reworking festive choruses

also been wanting to record a covers record for some time and worked out the following criteria: (1) deep-cut rock music from my sweet spot

Greg Mendez - Beauty Land [CD] Evanescence Holding on to SmokeGreg Mendez has always been an economical songwriter he wields restraint and simplicity as tools, the core of his songs sharpened into simple, cutting truths. On Beauty Land, his new album and debut LP for Dead Oceans, we're guided by a wry but forgiving narrator, an underdog who has learned to balance cynicism and faith. These songs are self effacing without self pity, carefully constructed altars of imperfection channeled through pop melodies,