Lost At Sea is the fourth album by Michigan based Power Pop band The Legal Matters who are the trio of Chris Richards, Keith Klingensmith and Andy Reed. The album was recorded with help from Cormac Wright and special guests Donny Brown and Amelia Reed. The album was Engineered and mixed by Andy Reed at Reed Recording Company in Bay City Michigan.
The album opens with Everybody Knows a loaded phrase currently, that could be used to make any number of political points or could be dreaming of a perfect life together like the couple in that photograph, on this laid-back power pop anthem.
The Message is sadly not a cover of the Hip Hop classic, this song has a far gentler idea of what The Message is, it will control you however, they encourage us all not to lose the fight, with a great guitar line and cool harmonies.
Shake This Feeling is slower and full of thoughts on what happens in the aftermath of another broken relationship, how you move on and what is going to happen if you allow The Legal Matters to be your everything. The mid song build opens things up, yet they still feel heartbroken once more.
Temporary Thing really should be a Lou Reed cover but isn't, instead it appears to be Power pop country twanging song for another brief encounter rather than a real love match, they just want some fleeting fun and games and are willing to wait for the right Temporary Thing to come along.
It Doesn't Matter if you love retro power pop records or not, this may well end up stuck in your head if you hear it a couple of times, especially when the guitars go off and it gets heavier alongside your pleading for what they want to do with you.
Let Me Explain are his thought on if they are still in love or not despite all the shenanigans and thoughts of how to make this sound like 10CC in a mellow kind of way, with the strings swelling filling in the emotional gap.
Stuck With Me endlessly practising the vocal harmonies to get them just so, while making clear that they will always be your burden in love and life, nothing will tear them apart from you, they cling limpet like to you, the wonderment that you'd even look at them in the first place comes shining through. They beg for you to call them up and not call them Al, instead of them feeling all Lost At Sea due to her indifference to reconciliation.
Marching On they are not chanting down Babylon trying to bring down a despotic regime, but are looking for lines written on the pavement that will help to arrest anyone who can't outrun the devil, in our current times this song needs to be a lot more direct, if it hopes to cut through to a wide audience, sparking a conversation and moving us to a better place, rather than endless violation of normal practise.
Slow Down they have the beautiful acoustic guitar ringing in your ears before things get stormy once more, this is almost a lullaby for all those words left unsaid.
The album closes with The Exit Signs they still haven't figured out they have been dumped, they still think she might have them back if they can get the Beach Boys style vocal harmonies perfect, but honestly, the signs are she wants less drama in her life, so even if they make it out alive she may go in another direction entirely.
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