Tim Vantol - Road Sweet Road (2010)

Tim's first album Vantol, Road Sweet Road, is an invitation to life. Launched by four seals (EminorSeven, The Greatest Records, Road Sweet Road Records & Bad Mood Records), is a brief but direct disk. Through his short nine songs, of which the longest is less than three minutes, Tim Vantol recital makes a real good acoustic folk. Having gone through different bands and hardcore punk rock, this young Dutchman decided to go alone, away from the electrification and distortion of punk, while retaining the same spirit scoundrel.
"Road Sweet Road" is the title song and opening intro whose work and seems to transport us to an Irish pub. Then, accompanied by his acoustic guitar, percussion and a slight harmonic makes a song to life on the road, which will be a constant throughout his work and, despite stating that it is unable to find the words to write, finding the just.
In less than two minutes it takes the second cut of the album, "Four Wheels and a Sixtring" Vantol, this time without any accompaniment to your acoustic guitar, sings his rejection of the culture of hard work: "Could you tell me what is it good / to be a slave to something odias/45 years of regrets, I prefer / this road until you die. " A declaration of intent and a summary of their lifestyle.
Alternating subjects with and without percussion, some harmonica, female choirs and a pair of steel guitars, the songs are going to get to that, in my opinion, is one of the best on the album: "Broken Mirror". I do not know if it is the spirit that transmits the letter, the voice of Tim Vantol torn or choruses and clapping at the end of the song is that the case is of great simplicity fascinates me.
In "What Norm?" The theme that marks the Ecuador's compact Vantol returns to the theme of work opposing the culture of a career and money hoarding nonsense, inviting us to do what we love, because life is short and what happens "if the cancer / takes our lives / and we have not tested good before I die."
Quickly we approach the end of the disc, while songs happen in the same line of the previous acoustic "Problemes are for free", "Do Whatever the Fuck You Want" (the title itself is already a declaration of intent) up to the penultimate song LP, "Caged Birds", which perfectly could sing in a tavern while we raise our tankards. The counterpoint of "Road Sweet Road" is marked by the last song. In the previous section, showed Vantol animated ("there is hope for all of us / you just have to keep believing"), in "Mercy Will Kill Me" is quite gloomy tone and lyrics deeply depressed. However, despite this song, the album is still an invitation to live, an ode to the road and drink, to make mistakes and not ever regret. So when the music just makes you want to put it again at full volume while simply live and you take a beer.