SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: RYAN HAMILTON – HAUNTED BY AMERICAN DREAMS

RYAN HAMILTON
HAUNTED BY AMERICAN DREAMS
WICKED COOL RECORDS

Whenever some music that has not been in the immediate focus of critics and audiences, pops up, they tend to call it ‘resurrected.’ Power pop is one of those, but it is just another genre that has been around since the 60s that has never gone away, it just isn’t given the attention and credit it deserved all along.

It seems that Little Steven Van Zandt never lost it out of his focus, as his Wicked Cool Records keep coming up with some serious power pop (extended) gems more often than not.

Count among those Haunted By American Dreams by Ryan Hamilton. It is the kind of power pop where that extended addition to the term comes in – Hamilton adds bits and pieces of the so-called heartland rock to the usual mix of very good to excellent melody hooks and ringing guitars that so many call summer music – essentially the one that you play with all your windows open (home, dorm or car), on your lawn, beach, or garage (door open, of course), the one that makes you press repeat quite a few times.

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