Review by MusicBox
4 stars out of 4
Amazing. There's no other word to describe Guster. Ryan Miller and Adam
Gardner provide classic guitar chords while Brian Rozenworcel creates the
tempo on his rather unusal choice of percussion, bongo drums. Brian has
been deemed the Thundergod and rightly so. He plays his drums savagely,
sometimes even making his hands bleed. With such passion behind their
music, it's no wonder Guster have developed a cult following. College-kid
favorites, Ryan, Adam, and Brian produce music that's hard to classify,
but unmistakably wonderful. Called power pop, hippie rock, and college
rock, it's genre bending, but lyrically and musically pleasing. The soft,
cherubic voices of Ryan and Adam are so soothing that it's hard to pay
attention to anything else when Guster's in your stereo. Songs like the
farewell ballad "So Long" are so heart wrenching you feel Ryan's pain as
he wrote each word in the lyrics. No to mention the radio ready hit
"Barrel of a Gun." With songs like these in their repertoire, this trio
is bound to be huge. Phish and Dave Matthews fans usually also flock
to Guster. With a fanbase like that, they'll be selling out ampitheatres
in no time.
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