Review: Michael Landgarten and The Converts' "The Long Highway" — A Future Classic in the Making
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A music review praising Michael Landgarten and The Converts' song "The Long Highway" as a transcendent, classic-sounding piece that defies easy genre categorization. The reviewer highlights the song's simplicity, sonic elegance, and lyrical eloquence, suggesting it is a future classic that just needs time to be recognized as such.
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bskyReview: Michael Landgarten and The Converts' "The Long Highway" — A Future Classic in the Makingbigtakeover.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledThe best music transcends such nonsense; the best music, meaning the person behind it, seems to be so knowledgeable of the songwriting process, so aware of the simple sonic elegance, informed of the power of deft lyrical eloquence, that the only tag it needs is classic…or at least future classic, just give it enough time.
Some music falls easily into generic pigeon-holes, although thankfully, that is a fashion that is dying out.
"The Long Highway" is just such a song.
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