Title: Mr Melody does it again
Review: Where this guy dreams up these melodies is beyond me, Neal wins my vote for Lifetime melody KING. No one goes to this much effort to communicate how he feels through the instrument using melody. When you can play like this, with that tone, you reach people, emotionally...you transcend mere chops, and in fact have an almost verbal language that you can talk to people with. I think it's what all of us guitarists aspire to. I On U, the song, is my favorite melody, by far, but there are plenty of gems to be found on this disc. Overall his guitar sound is absolutely angelic. His mixes could use some work, and the lack of a live drummer really takes so much away from the melodic potential of this album in my view. I hope he re-releases with an all-star cast of studio gods. I'm all for the experimental atmospherics, though, just would be great to hear a steve smith or dean castronovo driving these melodies with the flair and boundless energy we all know and love them for!
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