Joe Derrane Man Behind The Box CD

The album also contains 6 songs from the Ecstatic EP from 2005. Yet the album flows flawlessly, as if written in order. Track by track you wonder how an album like this goes unnoticed. If you give this one a chance you will be instantly be ready for more. The Great Big Sea is the kind of album that has you anticipating the next." -Nick Greto, Kevchino "Indie music, that ubiquitous catch-all, is an expansive umbrella. A thorough exploration of its outer reaches will yield at least fleeting glimpses of every trick laid down in the historical farrago of songwriting. It always comes as a mild shock, then, when something rare, not to say new, bubbles to the surface. The latest emergence of said phenomenon is delivered courtesy of Beat Radio, a New York-based pop outfit with one release (2005's The Great Big Sea) to their name. Fronted by singer/songwriter Brian Sendrowitz, the distinguishing mark here is stark-naked lyricism taking romantic sincerity to new projections. There are those among the listening elite, jaded ironists ...