A New Reissue Release from Dave Vamfer

An eclectic but welcoming album from Dave Vamfer recently released and this record gives off a lot of elements of a warm tonality but does so in a few different formats, styles, and even genres.

The Find The Sound 2025 reissue album delivers everything from folk, singer-songwriter, rock, pop, and plenty more with attributes of contemporary lacing everything, and a lot of this feels like it came from real places.

Being able to cross genres on one track is quite a brilliant move because it's hard to make it work. Still, Dave managed to find a way on the very first track of the record called "Keep On Coming EDM", which is quite an energetic single that laces together that sort of folk rock element with an electronic undertone, organs to fill the space. It's amazing how it comes across with a blend of vintage and fresh tonalities.

This is one of the attributes that the record sort of boasts throughout its course. It is definitely a diverse range of approaches, and by the time you get halfway through the record, you begin to expect a little bit of the unexpected.

Having said that, a lot of the record is definitely confluent and consistent; it does have a lot of that warmth, especially in the guitar and vocal tones.

You can hear that Dave is influenced a lot by some classic rock, and I hear a lot of this and tracks like "So Happy". A piano-based ballad of sorts that gets pretty personal as Dave paints a picture while the song unfolds.

He can get quite detailed lyrically at times, and that also helps you picture everything and sounds like this have soul to them. You can tell that the authenticity is genuine and that he's pulling from life experience a lot of the time.

Listening to this full album gives you a lot of different aspects of Dave's songwriting and personality at the same time.

This is only one of the reasons that I would suggest listening to this thing from beginning to end, in one shot.

The other is because again, it's eclectic. You never know what's going to come next, but you know it's going to be something that is memorable to say the least.

Listening to one or two tracks off of this record may give you a good idea of what you might expect, but will not give you anywhere near the full spectrum of what the full album has to offer.

I personally love when he gets a little Southern and bursts a bunch of soul out like on "Dark Dawn Blues", which is a blues rock track that definitely pulls from vintage influences and comes through packing a little bit of a punch.

You can feel the soul oozing from the guitar performances on this one and it's absolutely infectious right from the get-go.

He also has elements of jazz and contemporary flowing through the veins of this record, especially with its title track, "Find The Sound", which features such a warm percussion approach, beckoning that classic jazz influence, piano work that just takes you for a journey, and saxophone that had so much brightness in color to the entire thing.

This is exactly what I mean by an album that keeps you on your toes. Even by the time you get to this track, which is eight songs in, you are sort of blown away because you just didn't expect anything like this on the record.

It just goes to show you the massive slew of influences that Dave embodies when he's writing his music and how he does so with very few walls built around.

He has this sort of freedom when he's writing his songs and doesn't really do it with a particular genre in mind. He does it because that's how he's feeling at the moment.

Songs like "Because We're Ending-Reprise" offer up much more of an orchestral and cinematic soundscape with lush strings and keys that help build on the emotion and lyrical accompaniment of the track.

This was a beautiful one, and I definitely got caught up in the emotional backbone of it all.

As I said before, it is not often that you come across a record that showcases this much diversity in songwriting while still sticking to the semi-contemporary pop sensibilities throughout the entire course.

Dave seems to pull this off without a hitch throughout this record and I suggest once more listening to it all the way through because only then do you get the full experience and stories.

This is more than worth your time so take a deep dive into this and remember where you heard it first.

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