{"id":24585,"date":"2023-01-31T05:30:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24585"},"modified":"2023-01-31T22:33:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:33:39","slug":"album-review-richard-x-heyman-67000-miles-an-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/31\/album-review-richard-x-heyman-67000-miles-an-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Richard X Heyman \u2013 67,000 Miles an Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24586\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rxh_67000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rxh_67000.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/rxh_67000-300x267.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>There are few artists as capable of such consistently wonderful songwriting mastery as Richard X. Heyman. A master of jangle, the NYC-based multi-instrumentalist has a seemingly inexhaustible well of creativity, from which he has drawn gem after gem after musical gem.<\/p>\n<p>Heyman debuted on record with 1988\u2019s <i>Living Room!!<\/i>, a collection of perfectly-formed pop rock classics; he followed that up with more superb records. Personal favorites include <i>Hey Man!<\/i> and <i>Actual Sighs<\/i> (2007), but you really can\u2019t go wrong with any of his finely-crafted releases.<\/p>\n<p>That reality is unlikely to change anytime soon: his latest,<i> 67,000 Miles an Album<\/i> is stuffed with the same sort of durable ear candy that characterizes his previous works. If there\u2019s any criticism that can be leveled toward Heyman \u2013 and admittedly one has to dig deep to come up with anything in this regard \u2013 it\u2019s that the songs on his new record don\u2019t really sound all that different from the tunes he was writing and recording three and a half decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>Consistency is its own kind of virtue, though. His approach \u2013 rock-solid yet splashy drums, subtle bass work (often provided by wife Nancy), lovely guitar picking, soaring multi-tracked vocals and judicious use of other instrumentation (horns, keyboards) \u2013 defines the very concept of <em>formula<\/em>. But that isn\u2019t a bad thing, and shouldn\u2019t be thought of as such. Especially when the results are so unyieldingly enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Though he only occasionally does so, Heyman can rock hard: check out \u201cTraveling Salesman\u201d for proof. But more characteristic of his style is the gentle Merseybeat-inflected \u201cHer Likeness.\u201d Richard X. Heyman is preternaturally skilled when it comes to creating melodic works, miniature masterpieces. And <i>67,000 Miles an Album<\/i> is merely the latest in a largely unbroken string of must-have releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few artists as capable of such consistently wonderful songwriting mastery as Richard X. Heyman. 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