Alberto Arcangeli - Pop Down The Rabbit Hole

Album Rating:

10

Pop Down The Rabbit Hole by pop folk artist Alberto Arcangeli, is the musical equivalent of food. It comforts me when I am at my most vulnerable. The flavors are sweet, salty and often drenched in chocolate covered decadence that will surely give me diabetes, but god damned this son of a bitch... I just can't help myself. Alberto Arcangeli makes the type of music that drives me into the darker areas of my soul that I know I should never access because they lead to me picking up a cigarette habit again, but because he is such a puppet master I just can't help myself.

At this point it has become a matter of obsession, I sit staring at my computer while trying to figure out what every note from Pop Down The Rabbit Hole reminds me of. I bounce back and forth between Elliot Smith, the Beatles, even early Phish, the latter not so much for the content as much as the shifts in pitch and chord progressions. I love it so much that I have taken to making Bill Cosby faces while listening. I'm all fucking eyebrows these days because of this bastard.

The songs are rich with emotion, dripping with sentiment and expertly crafted with the small touches that make a good song into a great song. Alberto's voice is delicate but manly, it is rich, it is like drinking scotch while whittling fire trucks and guns out of mahogany. If songs like Hard Games do not drive your lady to smack you on the chops and then give you one of them kisses that smears her lipstick all over your face like a David Bowie album cover than you are doing something wrong. Yeah you, don't you even think about blaming my friend Alberto Arcangeli. This fucker is a man's man for fuck's sake.

Jesus Christ there isn't a single track on Pop Down The Rabbit Hole that is skip-worthy. Every track is wildly different yet grounded in Alberto Arcangeli's god like sensibilities. He makes me want to ditch the big city and move to an upstate farm and knock out like 12 kids who are all strapped to my chest in the world's biggest baby bjorn. This son of a bitch Alberto Arcangeli just makes life richer and every moment of 10 tracks, 26 plus minutes of Pop Down The Rabbit Hole is like a perfect autumn sunset. It fills my heart with contentment that life's important moments etch into ones spiritual memory.