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Hey All,

Just wanted to give you a glimpse of some of my band, hazeldean's, music. just go here: http://www.thesoundradio.com/artist/hazeldean for three songs from our upcoming album.

BTW, for anyone in the Edmonton area, we have a show coming up on Thursday June 30th at Sports World (137Ave, 104St). go to http://www.supernova.com/concerts/upcoming.php?showID=675 for more info.

Anyway, if you get a minute, give my songs a listen and let me know what you think.

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really well done technically.
I don't know about the whole "Hazeldean's vision is to continually expand past contemporary musical borders and develop a sound that is both unique and timeless" part,
They're a step above radio-rock but i wouldn't say the songs are overly creative. Either way they sound good and most of the lyrics are solid.
Ultimately it's a great start at the least, i can see you guys getting somewhere with this.


and finally, please please please do something about the "three ways from sunday" part in nenia. it's probably just a pet peeve, but it all but ruined the song for me. You have a lot of intellingent lyrics, and then a cliché that doesn't even make sense.

Thanks for the feed back
-as for that sentence you quoted, I would agree that it sounds pretty pretentious, but for the record it was a different member of the band who wrote it - I've been meaning to write a new bio, but I haven't gotten around to it. Thanks for reminding me though
-as for the "three ways from sunday" lyric, I kind of intended it to be a cliched statement - a lot of the lyrics in that song are references to cliches, eg. "to the victor go the spoils" - I think that's just sort of the tone that I was going for in the lyrics, but if you say you didn't like it then I'm sure it's worth some thought, so I will think about it.

-joel.

not too bad; definitely a great musical start!

Well, I clicked on your link expecting to hear another crappy wannabe band. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the music. Good stuff. If you were in the area, I'd check you out. Great vocals and very professional sound.

Pretty good.

i like.
...hazeldean's a place.

yup, hazeldean's a place - it's actually the name of the community that we practise in, that's where we got the idea. But if there can be a band called Chicago, and Idlewild, and isn't there a band called America? . . . I'm sure there are others.

Thanks everyone for listening!

Pretty good stuff. If you guys ever start touring.. swing by Thunder Bay. I'd go to the show if you came here.

Joel, what are you screaming in An End during the chorus? I remember when you were singing "it's way out, it's way out" or something sometimes.

it goes "waiting, waiting" and then "playing, playing".

If anyone wants to give those songs a second listen, I've put up new mixes of 'nenia' and 'sex in unusual places' that I just received. Let me know what you think.

An End reminded me a lot of Matthew Good's "Weapon"

The songs were good. Kind of long for a poppier sound but that's okay. Well done and good luck!

^hehe, I got that from my band when I first played it for them. It was a total accident though, so we just went with it.

thanks for listening.

I've got a new song up on my site! It's called 'My Dear Friends' and you can find it here: http://www.thesoundradio.com/artist/hazeldean

hope you enjoy! and I would love any feedback that you'd be able to give.

-Joel.