Matt Dusk - Two Shots

Artist: Matt Dusk
Title Of Album: Two Shots
Year Of Release: June 15, 2004
Label: Decca
Genre: Jazz / Vocal Jazz
Bitrate: 320kbps / 44.1Khz / Joint-Stereo
Total Time: 63:49 min
Total Size: 144 MB

Tracklist
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1. (00:04:29) Matt Dusk - Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad
2. (00:03:35) Matt Dusk - Miracle
3. (00:04:13) Matt Dusk - Windows
4. (00:04:06) Matt Dusk - Cold As Ice
5. (00:05:32) Matt Dusk - Lonely Road
6. (00:03:43) Matt Dusk - The Theme from Loaded Gun
7. (00:04:00) Matt Dusk - Don't Go Looking
8. (00:02:50) Matt Dusk - Fly Me To The Moon
9. (00:05:58) Matt Dusk - Wish You Well
10. (00:05:43) Matt Dusk - Always
11. (00:03:23) Matt Dusk - Please Please Me
12. (00:03:14) Matt Dusk - Beyond The Sea
13. (00:04:13) Matt Dusk - Precious Years
14. (00:04:04) Matt Dusk - Every Mother's Son
15. (00:04:47) Matt Dusk - Five

The big-label bow of this Toronto-born, classically trained pretender to the contemporary crooner crown comes bundled in a shrewdly frank marketing gambit. Dusk scored a recurring role on the reality series Casino as a young, wannabe showroom headliner. As with virtually every ambitious retro-pop male vocalist since Harry Connick, Jr., the musical touchstone here is Sinatra, from the album's title track (an 80th-birthday gift from U2 to the Chairman himself, who never recorded it) to a rhythmically sprightly take on "Fly Me To the Moon." But what noses the 24-year-old Dusk ahead of his rat-packaged competitors here is a promising understanding of the canon that goes deeper than mere ring-a-ding-ding trappings. While his bold, downbeat recasting of the Beatles' "Please Please Me" falls short of its ambitions, songs like "Lonely Road," "Every Mother's Son," "Always" and "Five" (the latter two tellingly co-written by the singer himself) have a reflective, autumnal tone that gratifyingly echo Sinatra's own period of willful, introspective reinvention in the mid-1950s. --Jerry McCulley.