• A Strong Debut for Andrew Castro

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    Terry Roland Posted On April 6, 2017
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    Andrew Castro’s debut album, Can I Play for You, displays the kind of singer-songwriter who provides a direct connection to the best sensibilities found in the continuous movement of fine songwriters out of California over the last 50 years.  The album offers an appealing blend of folk-rock textures, well-crafted songs, an engaging voice full of character, soulful & atmospheric production; all ingredients that point to success in modern Americana music. These ten songs are filled with insights about the birth, death, re-birth and redemption woven together through inside tales of intimate connections we find throughout life.

    The opening song, the highly danceable, “Room for Two,” leads us into the madness of the beginning of a a relationship or perhaps a one-night-stand. Songs like “Paranoia” and “She’s Already Gone,” captures an inside look at unsettled interior world of unrequited love. “Insane,” describes the obsessive quality found in a restless love

    The album dances between up tempo love songs like “Us,” and broken-hearted insights that relate as much to the human condition as they do to the spiritual redemption found in love discovered illustrated on “Perfect Symmetry.”  As a songwriter, his works is beneath the surface of things. They are restless songs with energy that begs to dig deep into the moment-where poetry is found in the gentle melody of a folk song.  . As the theme of intimate romantic love takes dips and turns through love obsessed, love lost, redeemed and finally found again.

    Can I Play For You stylistically is akin to the kind of insightful songcraft honed by Paul Simon with an easy style that seems as though he could be James Taylor’s lost son. Can I Play for You is a strong album debut that is consistent, thoughtful and full of the kind of soul and craft that makes for great artists. This is one artist to keep an eye on as he moves into a promising future.




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