Just in time for Valentine's Day, Trevor Blendour has released the ultimate album for pop lovers...and all other kinds of lovers! Trevor Treiber has been fronting Iowa-based pop-punk band The Blendours for over a decade. Falling In Love, his solo debut, leans deep into power pop and early rock and roll in a way that's hardly surprising. Over the course of 13 tracks, he covers all the bases: falling in love, being in love, having your heart broken, losing the girl, winning back the girl, getting dumped, and finding love again. These have been fundamental themes of songs since the beginning of time, but they are especially tied to the golden age of rock and roll. The influences behind Falling In Love are not hard to spot. Treiber wears his love for Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, early Beatles, doo-wop, and late '50s/early '60s teen idol pop on his sleeve. He builds his songs on a foundation of silky-smooth harmonies, candy-sweet melodies, and lyrics that appeal to the eternal teenager in all of us. And those are things that will never ever go out of style.
Falling In Love is full of original songs that could easily pass for covers of forgotten oldies. And while there are plenty of pop-punk acts that incorporate classic pop and rock and roll influences, this album feels more like the reverse of that. As Niek from Add To Wantlist has astutely pointed out, Treiber comes off like an early '60s rocker who magically stumbled upon a Green Day record from the future. Some of that is because he vocally resembles a young Neil Sedaka. But a bigger part of it is his marvelous execution of this musical style. In writing timeless two-to-three minute pop songs with a pinch of modern pop-punk influence, he's created an album I can recommend to music fans aged 9 to 90. Perhaps I'm just a sucker for love and romance, but Falling In Love is an album that puts a smile on my face. It exudes a joyfulness and innocence that are all too often missing from modern music and modern life in general. I will be eagerly awaiting to see if this album receives the Poppy Robbie seal of approval!
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Thanx for the shoutout Josh. Agree with everything you wrote here!
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