Garrett J. Brown is still at high school but has the mature, polished voice of someone much older.
He looks bright, athletic and every inch the model student.
On You Tube you can watch and hear him singing the American National Anthem before a girls varsity basketball game. If you like your singers to be unconventional and transgressive then you should look elsewhere.
Brown is the sound of clean cut America with conventional verse-chorus structures, catchy hooks and toe-tapping melodies. Mellow saxophone on several tracks adds to the smooth, polished mood.
He's an artist with mainstream appeal tailor made for talent contests.
He names his primary influences as John Mayer, Jason Mraz and Jack Johnson and any one of the eight tunes on his debut album could be mistaken for one of these artists. The reggae-style intro to House Of Cards, for instance, sounds like a straight copy of Mraz's hit 'I'm Yours'.
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"Sit back and relax" he sings on Kickback but the danger is you'll be sound asleep for the record is done.
His press release says that his music examines life's questions but his "lessons are pleasantly unobtrusive" which may be intended to reassures listeners but for me just confirms the record's safe, insipid quality.
Garrett J.Brown's Website
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