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- Artist: Son Ambulance
- Album: Someone Else's Deja Vu
- Label: Saddle Creek
- Year of Release: 2008
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- Reviewed by: deatheyesforkiley on 2008-07-26
RecommendSon Ambulance is yet another band off of Saddle Creek records. "What are they bringing to the table?", you ask. Well, they are bringing the sound you would expect to hear from such a label as SC. The indie sound that is so loved and yet equally hated by many people is back with Someone Else's Deja Vu. The duo that is Son Ambulance often sounds like Simon and Garfunkel. Is that a bad thing? No, not at all, but in no way is this sound their own. Perhaps the album title is much more fitting than we may have originally thought.
The first track off of the album is a samba drenched effort that is entitled "A Girl In New York City." Moving from sounds that remind listeners of Art Garfunkel we find our selves at a track entitled "Wild Roses." The first thing that pops into your mind at this point is Elvis Costello. As you may have found by this point in the review Someone Else's Deja Vu really is someone else's sound. Thankfully they do redeem their creativeness with songs like "Constellations" and "Juliet's Son" which brings a sound that is all their own. Those two songs honestly are the best tracks on the album. While they do pull from other artists heavily that in no means is saying that it is a bad album because I believe the contrary it is great effort but sounds very, very derivative. Son Ambulance essentially made an album that will make you have Deja Vu. Let me be the one to tell you though, you will be glad you had such an experience because Someone Else's Deja Vu is not an album that you want to miss.
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