Landon Pigg - Coffee Shop EP

By: Brett Merle

Wednesday May 14, 2008

Landon Pigg's Coffee Shop is a solid a stab at a tired acoustic genre. Pigg was born in Nashville, TN, but has spent some time around the Chicago area. Giving thanks to his father for encouraging his musical endeavors and his mother for harboring his poetic side, Pigg is now a growing artist whose songs have been featured on "Last Call with Carson Daly," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," and "Grey's Anatomy" soundtracks.

Coffee Shop's first song is aptly named 'Falling in Love At A Coffee Shop'. It's a simplistic song that has listeners getting what they expect: Pigg singing a heartfelt song and playing his guitar. The song excels at times when Pigg honestly proclaims " I never knew just what it was about this old coffee shop I love so much". For anyone who really liked mushy love songs, 'Great Companion' is the song for you. It's everything a love song should be: deep, passionate, and overly revealing. I myself found this song to be melodically enjoyable but lyrically mundane. 'Can't let Go' is one of Coffee Shop's better songs with its balance and beauty. It's another song of romance but it has a bit more of Landon Pigg the person that just Landon Pigg that musician. The music comes off as more sincere than most of the other tracks and for the sake of song, much more believable. 'Young at Heart' is a tale about the angst of living young while growing old, which the 24 year old Pigg can't know too much about. Aside from this truth, the sound is ok but synthetically sympathetic. 'Magnetismo' is without question Coffee Shop's best song. Pigg's Spanish lyrics and catchy melodies are punctuated by his use of Spanish style acoustic guitars. The song has a subtle attitude which prevails throughout and for me, saves his EP from being completely unspectacular.

 

 

With his latest release, Landon Pigg proves that Not every cup of coffee is as good as it's Coffee Shop. This EP is not bad, but it just didn't do much for me besides what I already expected. In Pigg's defense, this is an EP that is only 5 short songs in length. I think this artist has a lot of promise if he can generate some more good ideas that are not modern spin offs of what has already been done before.