{"id":30448,"date":"2025-11-23T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=30448"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:08:27","slug":"album-review-dave-vamfer-find-the-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/album-review-dave-vamfer-find-the-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Dave Vamfer \u2013 Find the Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30436\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dave_vamfer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dave_vamfer.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dave_vamfer-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/dave_vamfer-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>From Folkestone, Kent comes singer-songwriter Dave Vamfer. From what I can gather, Vamfer recorded a solo album <i>Find the Sound<\/i> a few years back but has retooled the album, re-recording some tracks, dropping others and adding some new ones. It\u2019s his assertion that the 2025 version of <i>Find the Sound<\/i> is a marked improvement over the original. Not having heard the old one, I\u2019m left to comment upon the new version. And I\u2019m finding it appealing.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an unmistakably canned feel to the drums on \u201cKeep On Coming,\u201d but Vamfer calls this new version an \u201cEDM\u201d mix, so that percussion texture makes sense. That aside, the song is a gently stomping rocker with a plucky, British Isles folk feel about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause We\u2019re Ending\u201d dials back the electronics \u2013 though they still poke through here and there \u2013 and emphasizes the more pastoral and acoustic musical textures. Vamfer\u2019s yearning vocal conveys the heartbreak of the song\u2019s lyric. Balancing the emotional palette, \u201cSo Happy\u201d is a more upbeat tune with a lyric to match. Vamfer\u2019s modest and homespun vocal timbre underscores the authenticity of the whole project.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a subtly Parisian jazz feel to \u201cIf There\u2019s a Purpose?\u201d The tune is a musical outlier on this set, but it\u2019s a welcome one. \u201cDark Dawn Blues\u201d provides the most electric moment on the set, with a swinging, loping feel. The instrumental title track is musically lovely, with some unexpected elements (like saxophone) that, taken together, add up to the album\u2019s best cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Folkestone, Kent comes singer-songwriter Dave Vamfer. From what I can gather, Vamfer recorded a solo album Find the Sound a few years back but has retooled the album, re-recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,49,65],"tags":[5818],"class_list":["post-30448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-new-release","category-review","tag-dave-vamfer","cat-39-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30455,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30448\/revisions\/30455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}