The Gentlemen's Club - The Servant

The Servant by The Gentlemen's Club hits all the right keys. The Gentlemen's Club comes out of Montreal with Eric Passmore and Andrew Johnston are the writers and main voices and power behind the sound. Eric Passmore plays a couple of instruments on this album that includes the Piano, Acoustic Guitar. Andrew Johnston plays the Electric Guitar. Both Eric and Andrew share the lead vocals. The Servant also offers many other tastes of different musical instruments that are placed into arrangements. There is a Horn Arrangement, a String Quartet, Horn Section, and a Pedal Steel Guitar also to polish off their sound there is a six piece choir.

The Servant dishes out 9 songs of piano laced mellowed out pop songs. This is an album that any piano player or a piano enthusiast listener should collect into their album. The tempo and the sound of the album just creates the perfect atmosphere for quiet listening at a dinner party or a intimate bar scene.

I first listened to this album while making dinner. Right away I thought I knew what I was going to encounter while listening to this album but after Days Ago and Jane Doe finished playing the title track The Servant came on. Days Ago starts out with a nice slow tempo piano solo with a soft but deep vocal. Days ago uses most of their instrumental arrangements during the song.

Jane Doe is the second song on the album and it almost follows the same suit that Days Ago does but Jane Doe adds drums to the song and a bit of a faster tempo. The lyrics for Jane Doe I feel are about the girl that you are in love with and she is the center of your world.

When the song The Servant came on it immediately grabbed my attention. This song to me is the lead song off of the album. The tempo combination of the Piano and the drums are what catches my ears every time I hear this song. If only one song that could make it into a regular rotation on radio stations The Servant should be that song. I found that the lyrics for The Servant are possibly continued from Jane Doe but are from a start of a relationship where you are the servant for the Lady in the relationship.

Colourblind follows The Servant on the album. The piano is catchy at the start of the song but to me it's the lead vocals and the backup vocals that carry the song to its full potential. The Pedal Steel guitar and the Violin I feel are arranged throughout the song in the best of places and that is what makes the song into a great follow up single to The Servant.

Damn Those Pretty Girls lyrics are smartly written. It is about a girl that you are in love with but you are a unknown to her. It's the girl that you think about all of the time but you could never approach in fear of rejection or not enough courage. A line out of the song goes like this “And if I had a line I think I’d try it out on you” I don't think anyone would not be able to relate to that line at all.

Alexander's Anthem finishes out an album that is an excellent debut album by The Gentlemen's Club. Alexander's Anthem completes The Servant with the same tempo that it started in. The Gentlemen's Club throughout this song uses most of their instruments. The tempo of the song changes throughout the duration of the song. There is a slow and quiet pause in the middle of the song then the tempo starts to quicken up a little bit followed by the choir helping out. Alexander's Anthem closes out the album in a well mannered fashion.

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