Jose Gonzalez - Veneer

It's a chestnut statement but this is the album i wish i had made. And i say this for several reasons. Great guitar songs, simple vocals, a killer cover. It's quite rough, it's meandering in some stages, it's the sort of messing around on the guitar i used to do at home in my bedroom as an angst ridden teenager. The other thing is that i have no illusions about being able to sing, and neither does Jose Gonzalez. His is not a strong voice, there's not much too much range going on there, but it still conveys emotion, and rather than carrying the songs becomes one of the instruments. You'll probably recognise Heartbeats from a Sony commercial from a few years ago ( think it was the one with all the coloured balls bouncing down the street ) and i don't know whether its a help or a hinderance to a career to have something of that magnitude attached to your resume. Do people think of you as 'that guy with the song from the commercial' or do people remember you because you did 'that song for the commercial' believe it or not there is a difference. Anyway the album includes my new favourite cover of all time, just pipping foo fighters version of 'baker street'.