{"id":32576,"date":"2012-10-25T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-ollie-taylor-little-drummer-boy\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T01:28:11","slug":"album-review-ollie-taylor-little-drummer-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-ollie-taylor-little-drummer-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Ollie Taylor &#8211; Little Drummer Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/imageshack.us\/a\/img577\/7263\/ollietaylorlittledrumme.jpg\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><span>This record would usually be well outside my comfort zone; it&rsquo;s poppy and sometimes a bit too 80&rsquo;s. However, after a week with it, I think I may have been won over. Well, at least as far as I can be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span>Ollie Taylor<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0sounds a bit like an X Factor contestant to me, and he looks a bit like one too. The record blends 80&rsquo;s pop with some nice soundscapes and some extremely catchy musical hooks, in <em>&lsquo;This Is Love&rsquo;<\/em> we hear one of these that managed to get stuck inside my head. Tracks <em>&#8216;The Eyes That Follow&rsquo;<\/em>\u00a0and the dreadfully titled <em>&#8216;The Psycho&rsquo;<\/em> blend together and seems to compliment each other nicely, two sides of the same coin so to speak.<!-- more --><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>There&rsquo;s nothing particularly wrong with <\/span><strong>Ollie Taylor, <\/strong><span>or this record, its chilled out, and perfect for working to, I found myself with it playing in the background, and even noticed myself nodding along. What stands out to me about this record is that <\/span><strong>Ollie Taylor<\/strong><span> produced, recorded and wrote the entire thing himself, which deserves a massive amount of respect, as writing catchy pop music is no doubt an extremely hard task.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>Overall, it&rsquo;s okay. It&rsquo;s an interesting debut, confident and deserves a lot of respect for having going at it alone and doing the whole thing himself, minus so guitar work. I can&rsquo;t see myself coming back again and again, but its a confident and competent little record and fans of Ollie&rsquo;s other band <\/span>The October Game<span> will probably find this release interesting. I just couldn&rsquo;t let myself go enough to truly get into it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>2\/5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>&#8216;Little Drummer Boy&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Ollie Taylor<\/strong> is out on the 29th October through\u00a0<\/span><span><strong>Scylla Records<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Ollie Taylor<\/strong> links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ldbofficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OllieTaylorUK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/ollietaylorofficial.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/ollietaylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundCloud<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Words by Ryan Clayton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This record would usually be well outside my comfort zone; it&rsquo;s poppy and sometimes a bit too 80&rsquo;s. 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