As a title, “Point of You” is a wonderfully open and ambiguous phrase. Is it accusatory? Is it a chance to list your achievements? Does it relate to ambition, or perhaps a call to arms? I think it is all those things: an open and honest question that prompts the listener to reflect on what they are doing with their life and how it relates to the world around them. But I suspect that it will also mean different things to different people. (There is also a clever pun in the title if you say it fast enough.)
What isn’t in question is how great this funky, Latin-grooved, trumpet-blasted, bass-buoyant song is. It might be asking you to stop and think about who you are, but it also demands that you get down and boogie, truly a song that engages both sides of the brain, balancing intellect with infectiousness, poignancy with funky philosophies.
As The Heard Eye build their lush soundscapes, as soulful guitar licks dance deftly with washes of organ, as they laydown a background sound that has you making a mental note to revisit your early seventies Stevie Wonder albums, it makes you think…why can’t all pop music be this smart? I’m using pop in the broadest sense of the word, but this blend of the smart and the sassy, the cool and the contagious, and the clever sets a high benchmark for…well, everyone. Why can’t we have more music that makes you want to dance the night away and then wake up the next morning and rethink your life?
Never has soul-searching been this much fun.
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