Real Life [Import]

Evermore | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea/Warner
• ASIN: B000GB7DH6
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,476 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Real Life

2. Running

3. Light Surrounding You

4. Unbreakable

5. Morning Star

6. Never Let You Go

7. My Guiding Light

8. Afloat

9. The Great Unknown

10. The Only One I See

11. Inside of Me

12. Goodnight Is Not the End

Editorial Reviews

Sophomore album by this New Zealand Alternative Pop/Rock trio of brothers, who have won numerous NZ and Australian music awards since the release of their debut album, Dreams. Although not as atmospheric as their debut, the songs here have much more depth to them. Warner. 2006.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From Dreams to Real Life, August 21, 2006

By 

Denise (dlh) (Indiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Real Life (Audio CD)

Evermore just keeps getting better with each album. I loved Dreams and have given it to friends and family for gifts. When Real Life came out I was again blown away. My favorite songs on the album are Running, My Guiding Light, The Only One I See, Unbreakable, Never Let You Go. Actually, I can't choose a favorite. They are all so wonderful. I would definately recommend this album and have already started giving it as gifts to family and friends. What better gift than to share the music you love.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptionally good band !!, February 16, 2007

By 

Dr Jeremy Buddle (Battery Point, Tasmania Australia) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Real Life (Audio CD)

Evermore is an exceptionally good band, and Real Life is their second studio album, released in July 2006. Comprising brothers Jon, Peter and Dann Hume, Evermore hails from New Zealand's North Island, and has been very successful in Australia and New Zealand. Their music deserves to reach a worldwide audience. All three brothers are songwriters, and though eldest brother Jon does most of the singing, it is possible to distinguish the three voices at work here.

Real Life opens with a powerful and positive title tune, which might be about waking up from one's Dreams and "stepping into the light" of one's adult Real Life. It segues into the hit single Running - an anthemic, confident rock song with a memorable chorus. This song received tons of airplay on Australian radio in 2006, making it one of the year's best known pop hits. Current single Light Surrounding You is a melodic winner that has gone even further up the chart and is sitting this week at #1 on the Australian singles chart. My favourite song on here is the fantastic The Great Unknown. The guitar sound on this track is reminiscent of U2, and, honestly , this is one of the best songs I heard in years, and I played this track heaps of times in August 2006 after buying my copy of the CD. Some slower songs like Afloat are balanced by loud , guitar based rock like Unbreakable and fine songs like My Guiding Light, and there are some melancholy moments too. Overall though, this album is catchier even than Evermore's 2004 debut CD Dreams, and a little more optimistic and "mainstream" in tone.

I saw Evermore in concert here in Hobart, Tasmania in September 2006, and can confirm that they are a great live act. The Hume brothers, whom I briefly met and talked to after the show, are talented and pleasingly down-to-earth about their music , and deserve a long and successful career. Definitely go and buy a copy of Real Life !!

Highly Recommended for rock and pop fans . 5 Stars from me

5.0 out of 5 stars They deserve to be known!, July 28, 2008

By 

Keera T. Ward - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Real Life (Audio CD)

They are relatively unknown in the U.S., but are an amazing band made up of three brothers, Jon Hume, Peter Hume, and Dann Hume. Jon does most of the singing and his voice is so distinctive from anything else out there. It saddens me that they are not on the radio more in the U.S. Listening to this album is pure pleasure from start to finish.