How do you judge a review of a Band you don't particularly like?
Well, of course the job here to review the radio work, not the work being reviewed.
This review is just fine, though the opening is a bit jarring; expecting the listener to be a bit more familiar with the band than the narrator gives us...and there is no intro copy on the piece's page to give a way in to the review.
Otherwise this is top notch reviewing. Like most reviews, it's a few parts music and few parts commentary. The production and leveling is fine. It's a great review to air if your station is into this band. For the most part, the narrator is enthusiastic, credible and insightful. Bordering a little too much on the Fan side of the fence, but nothing gushy.
The reviewer does of course jab at belt line about how mainstream radio won't play the Gourds. That's never a good line to leave in a review...some commercial station somewhere is going to play them. Either cross town (as in this case) or on some station that streams like we do.
Review of New Music Review: The Gourds' "Heavy Ornamentals"
Steve Yasko
Posted on January 29, 2006 at 03:05 PM
How do you judge a review of a Band you don't particularly like?
Well, of course the job here to review the radio work, not the work being reviewed.
This review is just fine, though the opening is a bit jarring; expecting the listener to be a bit more familiar with the band than the narrator gives us...and there is no intro copy on the piece's page to give a way in to the review.
Otherwise this is top notch reviewing. Like most reviews, it's a few parts music and few parts commentary. The production and leveling is fine. It's a great review to air if your station is into this band. For the most part, the narrator is enthusiastic, credible and insightful. Bordering a little too much on the Fan side of the fence, but nothing gushy.
The reviewer does of course jab at belt line about how mainstream radio won't play the Gourds. That's never a good line to leave in a review...some commercial station somewhere is going to play them. Either cross town (as in this case) or on some station that streams like we do.