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Sean Wright is new, young name with a wirey way with words and mature melodies to match. His debut 45rpm is a power pop art treat! Minimal cover suggests an out of body experience that highlights awareness of something beyond the self. "Strange Situation" reeks melodic havoc - a powerpop producer par excellence! Riffs and driven drum beats march into infinity. Growling vocals rise and fall in a tight, professional recording that cries out for more than this two track release. "Silent Dreams" demonstrates a softer acoustic approach that grips. Wright wails: "I can tell you there's nothing you say that means that much to me..." I believe it! Wright is an exciting new talent that seeks further discovery.!" Sandy Robertson, January 1979
creditable D.I.Y independent. Wright is an enigma worth popularising. His A-side offering ‘Strange Situation’ comes replete with straight ahead hard rock vocal punch and well-played instrumental expertise (uncredited). Over the edge is his ambition. The reverse ‘Silent Dreams’ is more enterprising, acoustic buildings tumble towards an electric style both inventive and hinting at a bright future. Information required from this unusual and potentially solid purveyor of crunchy biscuits.” Max Bell, January 1979
June 30th 2009 SOURCE: OUTSIDE BOX MUSIC https://outsidecboxmusic.wordpress.com/tag/sean-wright/
"So this post took me A LONG TIME to write. Why you may ask? Well I’ll tell ya… A few weeks back I wrote about Sean Wright. I talked about his Album-A-Month project and I only briefly mentioned his 26th album in 26 months “The Calling”, and believe it or not that post gave this blog legs of its own. It generated more hits than any other post I have written. Don’t think I am after hits because that is not my goal but more hits means more people are seeing the other posts and hopefully supporting other Indie Bands as well as Sean. But Going back and realizing that I never gave the album a review…I knew I had to come back to it, and review the album.
The Calling is album number 26 in as many months by Indie artist Sean Wright (He is now done with his 27th and #28 should be here in July). The Calling starts off DARK… and I am not talking merely about using the low end of the acoustic range to give tracks an ominous feel, but the lyrics are from a place I wouldn’t want to visit. Here is what I mean. The Calling is the title track and it deals directly with a life changing event. You can hear sounds of water throughout the whole track, which eludes to how we are drawn to water, and the power that something we take for granted has over us.
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Trust is a corner stone for the album and for this process as it signifies the beginning of new songwriting partnerships. Trust features the writings by poet, Reine Amodeo. The track “Could I Be a Dream” deals with some things that I often think about, which is “What if I wake up one morning and everything I know is gone?” or “What if everything I know is just a dream?”. Could I Be a Dream has a beautifully moving harmony and the chorus is one that will get stuck in your head and you wont mind.
The latter part of the album sheds some of the darkness while keeping the lyrical intensity going. This album impresses me on many different levels and every time I listen to it I am more impressed with its quality, its skill, and where it came from.
In June 2009 Sean Release Album #27 in 27 months, it is Called Beautiful Blue.
Once again all of Sean’s 27 albums are licensed for free under the Creative Commons License."
Sean Wright – Up The Creek
Genre: rock, acoustic, pop July 2010
"Sean Wright is productivity on legs. He has been releasing an album at the end of each month since April 2007. That’s 39 albums plus seven more from the previous year. And if you look around on his homepage, you will find several free compilation albums as well as 40+ albums from his “Lo-Fi Years” 1990 to 2005. None of his music expresses madness, it’s all good." Source: Tina Streiber, Make Use Of dot Com
folk tracks from the crusader of free, legal music. Sean Wright is what you would call a constant advocate of the free music parade. The talented singer/songwriter and record producer has been a staple presence in the free music scene. Since 2007, he's been releasing one album a month and so far, he's still going strong. Almost his entire discography can be downloaded for free on sites like Jamendo. He has remained a constant presence on the online music scene and was also hailed by NME as a leading DIY artist in 1979.
