Michael Garbriele is a veteran songwriter from Providence, Rhode Island with a serious Beatles fixation. His music has a DIY quality to each production, similar to Chris Breetveld (“The Breetles”). Things start off with “Another Girl ” a sweet McCartney styled tune with keyboards. The soft acoustic strum of “Better Do It Right” is a nice even mid-tempo number. The quiet is jarred with the glam sounding “A Candle Burning” which has echos of Sweet. “Getaway” has great angular guitar riffs, like a Badfinger ballad from the “Airwaves” period. But the Beatles influence keeps coming back, in “Hi”, “What I wouldn’t Give” and my favorite here, “Imagine what this Girl Could Do” a great melodic song with a neat jangle hook. However, Michael has a good song in “My Corner of the World” -but the overdubs and vocals don’t do such a good job with it. This would be a great song for Cheap Trick to cover. But that is the only misstep I hear with this well done album. Enjoy it, powerpopaholics!
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Listen to “Imagine what this Girl Could Do”