Appleton, WI solo outfit Strategic has returned with yet another proper album after several years of wandering between a collection of children’s songs and a Christmas album.
While the project’s early work was closer to pop punk and alt rock, the new songs flirt with adult contemporary, jazz, folk, and even hints of classic rock. All in all, it’s quite a deviation from previous albums. These songs are years in the making, and it’s interesting to here the finished result put to tape. This is a 13-track album which runs over 50 minutes, perhaps the longest Strategic album to date. Lyrically, this is an album for people in their 30s and 40s, an age group that tends to get passed over when it comes to lyrical subject matter. Add in saxophone and strings and I can’t quite think of anything comparable.
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