Music Style Driven Guitars and Upbeat Lyrics

Musical Influences Steve says "post-power-pop-punk-rock"

Group Members James Keene - Vocals, guitar; David Archibald - Bass; Marty Davis - Drums and Percussion; Steve Porvaznik - Guitar, background vocals

Albums Dear Life

Press Reviews From Focus Magazine... Updated 12/9/98 Daniel's Dream Dear Life Their demo, reviewed only a few issues back, showed some amazing promise for a young band bent on twisting the alt.folkrock thing into something along the lines Barenaked Ladies (especially the hummable title cut). Too bad we didn't pay attention to the lyrics a lot more, which show that the band have a lot more serious motivations and a penchant to hike the volume up as the tracks progress. While not piously rawk Xian nor hardlined straight-edged Daniel's Dream does some spiritual probing in the 11 tunes here, with "Come To Your Senses" ("Listen to the call...see who took the fall... see who did it all"), "You Go Before Me" ("You go before me- I will follow you...as I await your return"), and "Awakening" ("Awakening inside- by letting the truth in...you must be born again"). That said, the tunes can sometimes get caught up in chunk of cumbersome verbiage (for instance, "Smoke & Mirrors" has a righteous, thick metal groove that's diminished by the busy vocal chattering - same thing for the beginning of "Afterglow" that could have used some editing down to a few effective words). And though it sounds like we're lukewarm to these guys, we're actually very keen- the music ends up working on its own strengths (tight arrangements, in-the-pocket rhythm team, guitarist Steve Porvaznik's soaring leads), even offering up one of the few awesome, outright "Freebird"-styled jams in "Afterglow" to brush up against our ears this year. Worth an afternoon on the speakers. (3664 Montclair Drive, Palm Harbor, FL 34684, (727) 781-2720, www.danielsdream.com)

Location Tampa, Florida - USA

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