Show Brand New Worries By Philip tan Dean Beck ME AE Editor Objectivity can be a difficult quality for me to master when reviewing CDs CD's by new bands due to the influence of the high volumes of poor quality music Im I'm subjected to Even if I hear something I dont don't dislike dislike dislike dis dis- dis- dis like it usually invokes only a lukewarm lukewarm lukewarm luke luke- warm response The new CD release Brand New Worries by the group 3 Penny Needle was something else It broke through my jaded preconceptions of what news forms of torture I was about to suffer when I fired up the CD player I enjoyed nearly every track on the CD as opposed to the typical pattern pattern pattern pat pat- tern followed with one good song and lots of filler My greatest appreciation lies intha in hi that tha along with great rhythm and interesting riffs has not forgotten forgot forgot- ten the melody without which a band will never reach beyond obscurity The lines between musical styles are so blurred nowadays and this band is also a somewhat enigmatic beast to put a tag on They have a sound akin to but with unique melodic patterns and at times tunes a harder edge verging on a metal sound Not too much though so dont don't let the label scare you off Especially enjoyable are tracks 4 Nothing you may have heard this one and 6 Fine These songs were f filled led with great vocal melodies and melodic guitar riffs By following this pattern of writing I feel that this band will create some really great material Track 10 David Gunn has a sharper sound with percussion and guitar in excellent tion As I mentioned earlier almost all aU tracks are worthy of a listen as well is also coming to Salt Lake City this month They will be performing performing performing per per- forming the music from Brand New Worries at The Holy Cow on October 16 The Bar Grill on the and on the Let me end this rare endorsement by mentioning that I will actually be keeping this one m n 1 tk W I p. p i g LJ H r i J k 1 Lz r rye ye s r 4 J 41 JN i a 3 9 wn s M rs of the group 3 Pet Penny iy N Needle edle |