subject: REVIEW - Chewy is Chewy Smart [print this page] The CD's final song, "Time Lost," written by the bassist Smith, hints at the band's musical potential. The song starts with electronic sounds, then goes to a significant, disco/slow, exhausting step rhythm. Stops and starts coincide with the vocals. Suspended guitar and keyboard chords merge into a jazzy, funk beat on the drums while the bass counters with sustained notes. Spencer plays a guitar solo that has echoes of prog rock. Later the piano solos over the disco beat. The overlapping of the rhythmic grooves with parts of the verse and solos hints at the band's reservoir of ideas. Through song craft and subtlety and hot tracks by a onerous-operating band, produce means more excitement than the average screaming diva and her pc manipulating producers.
