by SixForty1 - Started Right Here
3.7
Flyctory.com Pros
- Straight country pop
- Very good vocal strength
Flyctory.com Cons
- Some songs too similar
SixForty1 here and there popped up in my playlists with country-pop songs with a signature, memorable style. Thus, their 22nd October 2021 released fourth EP Started Right Here has been a rather easy selection for the list of my reviews for that day. Here are my thoughts about the six tracks.
SixForty1 – About The Artists
Brooks Hoffmann and Austin Gee originally met at Murray State University in Kentucky. At adjacent highway 641 was giving the title to their debut EP, which they released in 2016. Some two years later, they decided to relocate to Nashville. Since then, they regularly release music and – apart from an additional acoustic session EP – released two more studio EPs so far. Picture This has been released in 2018, while their self-titled EP (2020) also included their biggest song so far, Somebody’s Gonna, which has gained over two million Spotify streams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMbzPYpYul4
SixForty1 – Started Right Here – Track by Track
The six song EP lasts 18 minutes.
1. Bad
The EP starts with Bad, which is actually a really nice song. If you have listened to SixForty1 songs before, you already feel quite familiar. They have a certain style, this song is just within these expectations. Let’s see what the other five songs will be alike (or at least the two other songs, which have not been published yet).
2. Never Gets Old
Never Gets Old was the last song before the EP release to be published by the duo. A very straight SixForty1 sound: country-pop which stays in your mind. Nice recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk9RPeO-CEo
3. Started Right Here
The title track was the first appetizer for this EP, released in mid-June 2021. The song feels a bit more modern than the two songs before, also because it works with stronger contrasts between the verses and the chorus. But overall, there are strong similarities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d27t8qf7cms
4. Not Me Missing You
The song feels like a ballad at the beginning, but I would rather see this love song as a beautiful one to listen to with friends at the end of a good night togehter. SixForty1 nice way to merge their two voices into one harmonic sound works so beautiful in a rather quiet setup – I would even say that this song is my favorite in the album.
5. Me and Your Memory
Right after my favorite song, I would say that Me and Your Memory is the song I struggle with most. I don’t really feel that it is a song which is worse than some of its predecessors. The arrangement disturbs me. A lot of sound in the background to the vocals – I can’t really decide whether I should listen to the instruments or the lyrics. Finally, I neither listen to one or the other.
6. All Night
If you look at Spotify streams or YouTube views, this is the most popular of all three singles released so far. Again, I struggle a bit what they did with the song. I feel it could be great country party song, a track made to have fun with your fans. But the album style is a bit to quiet, lacks energy. Maybe there is more force when they perform the songs on stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS0i6xXxjp8
SixForty1 – Started Right Here – Spotify
Here is Started Right Here on Spotify:
SixForty1 – Started Right Here – My View
Honestly, I expected a bit more of Started Right Here. There is no doubt that SixForty1 have a lot of talent and that they nicely work while adding their two voices to one signature sound. But I feel that there is much more potential in this duo than they show in this 2021 release. Dare to be more versatile, dare to have fun with your music – and dare to make your fans listen to deep, catching stories, please! Started Right Here is a pretty nice listen, but no must-listen.
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The fifth Lordiversity album Humanimals is showing Lordi in their comfort zone: the album is dedicated to glam rock, hard rock and ...
Lordi – Abusement Park (from: Lordiversity)
Not only because there will be a Lordi-featured ghost train ride on Finnish fun fairs in 2021, Abusement Park feels to be ...
Lordi – The Masterbeast From The Moon (from: Lordiversity)
The third album from the Lordiversity septuplet is The Masterbeast From The Moon. The album cover feels a lot like scary stories - ...
Lordi – SuperFlyTrap (from: Lordiversity)
The second album by Lordi from the Lordiversity box is SuperFlyTrap. It comes with another ten songs, but is significantly longer ...
Lordi – Skelectric Dinosaur (from: Lordiversity)
The Finnish monsters do it in extra large - on 26th November 2021 Lordi are releasing their new latest CD ...
Watching Helsinki from the Olympic Stadium Tower
Even though it hosted the Olympic Summer Games of 1952, Helsinki Olympic Stadium is still in use, e.g. for home ...
Expo 2020 Dubai – The Mobility District Pavilions
The Mobility District of the Expo 2020 was the last one my wife and I had a more intense visit ...
Holiday Inn Helsinki Vantaa Airport
With multiple floorball matches in the Vantaa region, like the EräViikingit matches against SC Classic on 22nd October and against ...
F-Liiga Women: SB-Pro Nurmijärvi – TPS Turku 2-5 (1-3, 0-2, 1-0)
SB-Pro vs. Turku, part 2: just the day after SB-Pro beat FBC Loisto on the road, they hosted their local ...
F-Liiga Women: EräViikingit – SSRA 7-2 (3-1, 1-0, 3-1)
Back to the EräViikingit: after I had visited their home match against Classic two days before, I had another match ...
F-Liiga Women: FBC Loisto – SB-Pro Nurmijärvi 4-6 (3-1, 0-2, 1-3)
The second match of my October 2021 trip took me to Turku, FBC Loisto, the women team of FBC Turku, ...
F-Liiga Women: EräViikingit – Classic 3-1 (1-0, 1-0, 1-1)
The second-placed team against the third-placed one - what a great way to be back in floorball after the Covid-19 ...
Radisson Blu Espoo (Finland)
Typically, I rather like to change hotels after a few days, also to have some different impressions and material for ...
Davis Cup Finland vs. India – Some Practice Session Views
Covid-19 and the corresponding social distancing rules make it rather hard to meet with the team before and interact with ...
Davis Cup Finland vs. India, Day 2: “Suomi” advances after Doubles
Hard to argue against that Finland was in the comfort position at this World Group I playoff tie in Espoo ...
Davis Cup Finland vs. India: Finland in the lead after Day 1 Singles
Tennis Davis Cup again. I was really flattered about the first day in Espoo between Finland and India. Will there ...
Davis Cup Finland vs. India: Preview
My team is back in Europe! Three years after the Davis Cup tie in Serbia, I am glad to support ...
SILVER LAKE by Esa Holopainen – SILVER LAKE by Esa Holopainen
Covid-19 felt to be a good opportunity for Esa Holopainen to go solo. Instead of releasing new stuff with Amorphis, ...
Jess And The Ancient Ones – Vertigo
I didn't have Finnish music for quite a while in my Flyctory.com media reviews. In this posting, I am taking ...
Korpiklaani – Jylhä
Since I ran into the music of Korpiklaani at a Lordi gig in Helsinki, I am really a fan of ...
Flyctory.com Best Ones 2020
After praising my favorite songs of 2020 and the favorite albums and EPs in 2020, the final posting to do ...
Songs Of My Life: Lordi – Hard Rock Hallelujah
After the first episode of my new category Songs of My Life was about Ultravox, 1980's pop and a story around ...
Averlanche – Life’s Phenomenon
If you are thinking about moving to Finland, but feel afraid of the (indeed strange) language - maybe it is ...
Nightwish – Human :||: Nature
Nightwish are somehow the undisputed kings of Finnish metal (even though I personally prefer Lordi). Being in the business since the ...
Hotel Korpilampi (Espoo, Finland)
Visit my Finnish favorite SB-Pro Nurmijärvi for two home matches in January 2020, I was looking for a reasonable priced ...
Finnair Airbus A350 Business Class from Helsinki to Dubai
In recent times, I had three Business Class flights with Finnair's long distance flagship, the Airbus A 350. In August, ...
Hilton Helsinki Airport
Helsinki Airport is nicely staffed with airport hotels: the GLO Hotel is located right inside the terminal building, two more ...
Lordi – Killection
Athens, Greece, 20th May 2006 - a day that did not only change my life, but the life of a ...
Marko Hietala – Pyre Of The Black Heart
The majority of the music community likely knows Marko Hietala as the bassist of Nightwish. In 2019, he released his debut ...
SB-Pro Nurmijärvi – Classic Tampere 4:2 (0:1, 4:1, 0:0)
SB-Pro Nurmijärvi vs. Classic Tampere - this has been the traditional match setup for years, when it comes to the ...
SB-Pro Nurmijärvi – Koovee Tampere 7:2 (2:1, 3:1, 2:0)
The match on 18th January 2020 was likely a tougher one for SB-Pro: trailing 0-5 against Swiss champtions Kloten-Dietlikon Jets ...
Flyctory.com – My Favorite Songs 2019
2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
Tarja – In the Raw
Tarja Turunen - the Finnish Opera and metal voice became a legend with Nightwish. After the split from her band ...
Finnair Platinum Wing Helsinki Airport
Flying intercontinentally from Europe via Helsinki, especially to Asian destinations, became more and more popular the last years. One key ...
WFCQ 2019: Finland – Austria 37:0 (12:0, 10:0, 15:0)
Austria had the tough task in their final match to learn against Finland and maybe gain some experience towards the ...
WFCQ 2019: Russia – Finland 1:18 (1:2, 0:13, 0:3)
In the third match of Saturday, there was absolutely no discussion about the roles: Finland was the absolute favorite against ...
CC 2019: Men’s Final: Storvreta IBK – SC Classic 3-10 (1-3, 1-3, 1-4)
After IKSU did what they expected to do (and stayed unbeaten), it was up to Storvreta to complete the Swedish ...
CC 2019: Women’s Place 3: SB-Pro Nurmijärvi – Piranha Chur 5-3 (2-1, 0-1, 3-1)
The matchup for the Women Bronze Medal match was quite unexpected, but also very interesting. After SB-Pro did not manage ...
CC 2019: SB-Pro Nurmijärvi – 1. SC TEMPISH Vitkovice 4-5 SD (2-0, 1-4, 1-0, 0-1)
Two days, two matches for each team to win the title - I already summed up the compressed route to ...
CC 2019: SC Classic – Floorball Köniz 7-1 (3-0, 1-1, 3-0)
Finnish Champion SC Classic from Tampere and Top-of-Switzerland Floorball Köniz opened the Men Tournament of the 2019 Floorball Champions Cup ...
Floorball Champions Cup 2019 – A Preview to Gävle
No floorball competition is changing that frequently like the Champions Cup. While previous season, six men and women teams each ...
Hilton Helsinki Kalastajatorppa (Hotel Review)
There are three Hilton hotels in greater Helsinki: while the airport hotel is mainly focussing on flying guests, the two ...
Finnish Aviation Museum (Suomen Ilmailumuseo)
As an aviation nerd, I just had to visit the quite well-rated Finnish Aviation Museum (Suomen ilmailumuseo), which is located ...
SB-Pro Nurmijärvi – Koovee Tampere 11-3 (4-0, 3-2, 4-1)
Back to Nurmijärvi: on 6th October 2018, I headed to Finland to see my favourite women's club team, SB-Pro, out ...
Finnish Superfinal (Men): Classic – Happee 6:2 (0:2, 4:0, 2:0)
While the Women match-up for the Superfinal has been the expected one, Happee as fourth-placed team in the regular season ...
Finnish Superfinal (Women): Classic – SB-Pro 2:3 (0:0, 2:2, 0:1)
One has to admit that betting on that pairing of the two dominators of Finnish Women Floorball would not have ...
Women WFC 2017 Finals: Sweden – Finland 6:5 SO
Writing that match report as one of the start-up (and testing) article entries on flyctory.com felt so easy to me: ...
