Goodbye Blue Monday

Goodbye Blue Monday

Jeremy Fisher’s homemade video for “Cigarette” cost him $60 and it received over two million views on YouTube, alerting potential investors that here was a kid who had learned how to draw a crowd (after several years busking the Vancouver streets and a lukewarm Canadian major label experience). His latest album isn’t quite as low budget as his video, but it does have a rough-hewn charm in its simplest moments — the acoustic guitar and harmonica of “Jolene,” the rambling Dylanesque delivery and small band approach of the title track and the lyrically wild ride of “Lay Down (Ballad of Rigoberto Alpizar).” Elsewhere, he shades towards pop, ‘70s New Wave style, with the unpretentious drive of “High School” and the romantically unsuccessful “American Girls” and “Scars That Never Heal.” This young troubadour manages to balance between worlds, keeping the lyric writing sharp without losing the melodic thread.

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