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Ian Walsh - "Please Remember"
www.musicequalslife.com ~ Monday, 19 May 2008

The second that I heard the first notes of Ian Walsh's major label debut called Please Remember, I knew that I was going to love this album.

The cd is made up of 10 very strong melodic, piano based pop rock tracks. It's one thing for the music to be there and be great, but a lot of times I find cd's where the lyrics and / or the vocals aren't up to par. But on this album, every piece of the puzzle fits together perfectly and this album should be an absolute smash as soon as it comes out.

Most of the tracks are upbeat songs dealing with relationships, or so it seems. There's a few more ballad piano driven tracks. But the album flows together perfectly.

I truthfully tried to find something negative to say about this album, and really the only thing that I could come up with is that it ends within 40 minutes of pressing play for the first time.

I know that I can't wait to hear more from this young college student. And I'm sure that we'll be hearing from Ian for a long time to come!

There is a sampler of these songs available now on ITunes or on Ian's site... Please check him out and support this amazing young artist! His full length national album is set to drop July 8th.

Guestlist Magazine ~ 4/30/08

"If you think of breakups, this was a hell on earth kind of break up," states 19-Year-old, Berklee College of Music student, Ian Walsh about the relationship that spawned the songs that made up his first EP, all five of which coincidently appear on his wonderful full length debut album "Please Remember." Walsh writes what he knows and knows what he writes. It is simple, who hasn't been through a breakup that changed their life and their outlook on how love is supposed to be? For the listeners, we are lucky that Ian decided to share with us how it made him feel not only in his words, but in the wonderfully crafted music that will fit amongst today's mainstream acts like Maroon 5 just as easily as it will against some of the Warped Tour artists like Academy Is. Walsh lends his musical talents to guitar, bass, and piano throughout the album and knows just when to crank it up a notch to drive home his lyrics as he displays on "Catch My Eye," but more importantly when to slow it down and use the piano as the prominent instrument as he displays on "Now or Never" and "Goodbye." Ian Walsh has created an album chalked full of emotion that anyone and everyone who has ever dared to play the game of love and lost will relate to with relative ease. "

New Artist: Ian Walsh

Ian Walsh is a new stand-out singer/songwriter in the the alternative rock genre. Similar in vocal stylings to Tonic frontman, Emerson Hart, mixed with Goo Goo Dolls Johnny Rzeznick, Ian's got the chops and the melodic sense to do great things. The songs are strictly by- the-numbers alternative rock, but some great guitar work makes itself evident in "Supposed to Be" and the excellent ballad "Goodbye" is well written and performed with gusto. The other standout song is another ballad "Familiar Place" with some interesting melodic turns in the chorus. This song really shows great potential. I look forward to more songs with a harder edge from Ian. This is a perfect example of real talent that goes unheard and those clowns on American Idol don't deserve all that PR exposure. Ian Walsh does.

Powerpopaholic.com (10/25/07) by Aaron Kupferberg

As a frontman and tunesmith, Ian favors high energy rock. The lead track, "Supposed to Be" mixes elements of everything from the Strokes to Keane to Coldplay. Ian shreds on guitar as well as bass, and his voice soars like a youthful Bono."

Roger Hillis
Beachcomber, May 25, 2007

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