Infused with catchy rhythms and melodic hooks like the chart-making rock or folk country classics youâve been humming half your life. Giudice has a knack for exquisite, understated lyrics whose subtle rhymes and word play create a dynamic unity.

12 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Modern Folk, ROCK: Acoustic



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Todd Giudiceâs songs sound like chart-making rock or folk country classics youâve been humming half your life. His music is infused with the catchy rhythms and melodic hooks that make you want to dance, yet its complex chromatics and introspective themes also invite lingering and listening. Reworking old songs and penning new ones, responsive to every nuance of yearning, irony, or empathy, as the case may be, Giudice has a knack for exquisite, understated lyrics whose subtle rhymes and word play create a dynamic unity. Heâs also a riveting performer. His smooth, wide-ranging voice conveys the words and tune with an easy grace, whose optimism, however, is sometimes shaded by the bittersweet undertones of someone whoâs loved, lost, and learned, in the best tradition of the seasoned country singer.

With the release of his second CD, Little Known Secret, Giudice has shifted away from the boisterous rock and roll of his previous CD and refined his abilities as a solo artist, developing a pared-down but nonetheless lushly produced country-roots sound. âPut the Hammer Down,â inspired by the idiosyncrasies of a former band mate, âSunny Girl,â a light-hearted, rhythmically insistent tune whose devastating irony is sung in a high, sonorous voice reminiscent of Paul McCartney, seem destined to become hits, with their driving rhythms, appealing tunes and gentle admonishments. The haunted obsessiveness of âDream Come Due,â Giudiceâs love song to the muse of music, whose spooky urgency and âtil death do us partâ intimacy is reinforced by Benjy King's Hammond organ, is another gem.

Time, the way it lingers, speeds ahead, moves backward in the mind-is a favorite theme of Giudiceâs. The majestic rhythm of âMilky White Smile,â coupled with the songâs spare instrumentation, mystical reverb after the line âtime is sighingâ and central disembodied image, succeeds in conjuring up an altered state outside the strictures of conventional space-time. The singerâs entreaty to the mysterious love object to âlull me into your sleepâ catapults the song into the realm of personal metaphysics.

The songs on Little Known Secret become cathartic after just a few hearings, seducing, surprising, comforting, and humoring you as they insinuate themselves into the mental repertoire of music that accompanies you on the highway, at the store, and in the kitchen. In telling it like it is, Giudice makes us sit up and pay attention, wondrously transmuting whatâs difficult, painful and ambivalent about life into an experience that turns out to be an awful lot of fun.