"Life Travels" is an album that lulls you right from the start with the very first song "Turtle Bay". You'll feel yourself transported to a Zen beach somewhere on the globe, where you'll forget all the unessential things and concentrate on the true joy of being alive. "Life Travels", by "The Southsea Music Society" (SMS), is a true must-hear, as it has everything it needs to create a stir. All the songs in it - and I really mean all, could be hit singles on their own, for there are so many moods created and felt within these tunes. What you'll get here are ten new songs that range from country influences to a smooth pop sound with some glimpses of psychedelia, as well as from folk ballads to a Tom Waits-meets-Leonard Cohen world in which you would like to stay forever.
"The Southsea Music Society" is a collaboration between Aníbal Miranda and Nancy Winter-Miranda (he with music, she with lyrics). Nancy Winter-Miranda in her own right has published a book of her poetry, entitled "Writer Slash Poet". You will see some of her poetic influence in the two romantic ballads, "So Much Pain" and "Magic in the Sky". Between the two, their journey has taken them to many places around the globe. You definitely feel this worldly influence in their music. A duo that writes and creates songs as smooth and perfect as these, deserves a place in the sun. Not sure? Another song, "Letter to God" - makes you wonder that this could well be an echo of Brian Wilson's collection of teenage Symphonies to God - where Aníbal's voice comes over rusty and punchy, accompanied by a string section that perfectly suits the orchestral mood of the song.
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