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Everything | Paul Cusick | 5:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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God, Paper, Scissors | Paul Cusick | 5:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Borderlines | Paul Cusick | 11:36 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Tears | Paul Cusick | 6:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You Know | Paul Cusick | 7:06 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Hindsight | Paul Cusick | 4:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Feel This Way | Paul Cusick | 5:07 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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When It Rains | Paul Cusick | 4:28 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Waiting | Paul Cusick | 6:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Human Race | Paul Cusick | 1:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Amazing Album hands down
This album by Paul Cusick shows great songs such as hindsight, feel this way, and without a question the best on the album was borderlines. The whole album shows influences from Steven Wilson. This album was created to stop all of the hatred and how Cusick does not understand why people do certain things to each other. The songs on this album are beyond outstanding album. Cusick said
"P'dice is my play on the word prejudice. The apostrophe (P'dice) acts as an abbreviation, but also represents the possession of prejudice.
I don't think I would be too far off the mark by saying we have all exhibited or felt the victim of prejudice in some form or other. It takes on many guises: racism, religious preference, classism, sexism, homophobia, ableism... yes lots of "isms" but this intolerance of others occurs between different gangs, between people of different nationalities, and we sometimes jump to conclusions about someone because of their weight or height. Some even think they know what someone is like because of the type of car they drive, the job they do or the type of music they listen to.
So what about the dice? Personally I think the place we are born, our gender, our skin colour, our religious beliefs, our physical attributes are not laid down in some grand plan but happen as a consequence of a series of events that occurred down through the history of our ancestry. Many of those events are beyond our control and it's simply a roll of the dice as to what you get when you are born.
So I started to write songs exploring some of the prejudices that exist. In this album I wrote songs in the first person, but not from personal experiences as I did with Focal Point. However what started as a collection of songs with a common theme slowly took on a life of its own.
P'dice is the story of one man as he explores moments of his life, his actions, his thoughts, his decisions, his feelings, his realisations and how they were shaped, often unconsciously, by prejudice"
Big improvement since last CD
In my review of Paul's previous CD, Focal Point, I gave it an "A" for effort, but only 3 stars. That record showed a lot of promise, but missed the mark. With P'dice, however, Paul delivers on that promise. A lot of maturing has gone on since his previous CD. Where Focal Point was trying to "be" Pink Floyd, P'dice hits the nice mix of just being influenced by them. Well done.
Remarkable, better with each listening
This review is overdue. P'dice was on my player almost non stop for 5 weeks after its release, then, as is my habit, I put it aside and listened to other artists, many of them carrying the prog-rock banner. While I resist pigeonholing anything - prog-rock would seem to include both Porcupine Tree and Uriah Heep, for heavens sake - I will use prog-rock as a reference point here.
I returned to P'Dice this week, after the amazing Steven Wilson concert burned me out on Grace For Drowning.
It's always a revelation to rediscover something you thought you'd heard every bit of. P'Dice is even better than I originally thought. And I thought it was brilliant. But now i see even more depth, more soul, more pure musicianship. It is more thoughtful, better arranged and performed than most "major catalogue" releases. The fact he did this nearly single handedly is astounding.
Even my hero Steve Wilson is guilty of the missteps Paul avoids here. There is no harmonic discord; there is no frantic drumming for the sake of frantic drumming. No whisper-then-scream vocal or musical assaults. Every note, every element seems refined to it's essential, perfect form and woven into a greater whole.
I am particularly aware on this go round of the maturity and intelligence of the lyrics, and the emotional scope of the album. My decades with prog rock have featured far too many lyrics about elves, stonehenge, serial killers, ghosts and magicians. UGH. Paul Cusick brings an emotional maturity and intent to this field that is in very short supply indeed.
I don't know what else to tell you to get you to buy this album, really. I can keep listing influences and similarities, but they don't do justice to Paul's very personal, and wholly original, second album. This man has my ears forever. Even if he does decide to start signing about wizards and psychopaths.
Top Albums and Songs By Paul Cusick
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Fade Away | Focal Point | 6:52 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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When It Rains | When It Rains - Single | 4:24 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Everblue | Focal Point | 6:49 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Focal Point | Focal Point | 2:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Hold On | Focal Point | 5:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Scared to Dream | Focal Point | 4:39 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Soul Words | Focal Point | 3:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You Know | You Know - Single | 7:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Christmas Through Your Eyes | Christmas Through Your Eyes - Single | 4:47 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Touch | Focal Point | 5:40 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
