Summer at Eureka

一切来得质朴而醇厚，甚至器乐的铺排也是那样自然而简约，作为一名澳大利亚新南威尔士的父亲，Pete Murray在他的这第三张专辑中找到了一种成熟且睿智的言说方式，磁性有力的嗓音，稳妥顺畅的音符，深邃可靠的情感，亦张亦弛间把他对于生命和音乐的热情注满了整张专辑。因为是他在郊区住宅的工作室里第一次自己制作音乐，唱片结尾的“Happy Ground”直接加入了偶然前来拜访的朋友和孩子们的合唱，欣然暖意间其乐融融。

Deluxe Aussie two disc (CD + PAL/Region 0 DVD) pressing of this album features a bonus DVD that contains a 23 minute documentary on the making of this album. Summer In Eureka is the 2008 album from the Australian singer/songwriter. Summer At Eureka, the fourth solo album from this former ruby hopeful, was recorded at Murray's home studio in Eureka, just outside of Byron Bay during the summer of 2007. Features the single 'You Pick Me Up'. Sony.　　

by Stewart Mason

For his fourth album, Australian singer/songwriter Pete Murray built his own studio at his country house and produced himself for the first time. Often, this is a recipe for grandiose failure of the Brian Wilson in the sandbox variety, but if Summer at Eureka has any major faults, it's that Murray perhaps didn't expand his reach enough. Taken individually, the 12 songs here are low-key but appealing AAA folk-rock, equally at home in comparison to the '70s singer/songwriters and contemporaries like John Mayer, Jack Johnson, and Jason Mraz. Taken as a whole, though, the lack of variety in Murray's songwriting and the uninventive arrangements make the album a bit of a slog to get through in a single sitting. Even the addition of Darren Middleton of Aussie rockers Powderfinger providing a more muscular guitar sound to about a third of the tracks, including first single "You Pick Me Up" -- the album's spirited melodic high point "Miss Cold" and the unexpectedly funky, organ-driven album-closing rocker "Slack" only help a bit, by making the sameness of the remaining songs more obvious.