Steven R. Brooks - Like The Moon

I guess they’re letting anyone with a pretty voice and a guitar record an album now. Or it’s getting too easy to make and market an album on your own. Case in point: Steven R. Brooks’ musical debut Like The Moon. Like The Moon aspires to be Badly Drawn Boy’s Hour of the Bewilderbeast but somewhere in the studio production creativity and/or resources were lost. Rather, Steven R. Brooks has created an album of acoustic guitar lullabies suitable for children. Songs are simple. Lyrics are clean. Themes are cute. Songs are simple you say? Every track mimics the James Taylor/Cat Stevens finger picking guitar style. No structural surprises here. Lyrics are clean you say? No swear words. No graphic sexual allusions. Utopian imagery: “I’d build us a bench / where we could sit and watch the birds fly by / when we grow old.” Better yet: “Showers fall on the field from sky to ground / such beautiful green such beautiful sound / wildflowers blooming like sunrise watching them grow / it’s a beautiful feeling a beautiful show.” Themes are cute you say? With songs about sunflowers, sun bathing dogs and skyscrapers adults need not fear the unexpected “costume malfunction.” Like The Moon is as clean as Jessica Simpson before she married Nick Lachey. So, if you want to introduce your children to the overwhelming world of the happy-go-lucky guitar picking singer-songwriter, Steven R. Brooks is your man. [www.stevenrbrooks.com]