POUPIAM.com: SAY WHAT?!

"He rocks harder than you, and plays guitar better than anyone you know."

"Keep your eyes open for Pou, he's definitely going places."

Melody:
- Good music in verses
- Good music in choruses
- Memorable "hook"

Structure:
- "Well-written structure"

Lyrics
- Engaging
- Cohesive
- Communicates emotion to listener

"Hey Pou, your song features good musical and melodic parts and a very memorable hook. The sincere vocal delivery suits the song well. The musicianship is solid, driving and tight and the production sounds excellent overall. The arrangement has an effective structure and flows well.

One thing you could consider is a slightly more dynamic second verse with a stronger beat. At the moment, you are breaking it down to (almost) first verse dynamic and energy - a stronger drum beat and a slightly more driving musical backing could help to keep the energy moving forward more, while still allowing for the higher dynamic and volume to come in in the chorus to make that part stand out as it needs to do.

Apart from that, good work."

8/10 in all categories which were Music, Lyrics, Marketability, Arrangement, Production, and Engineering.

Translation:

Pou Piam is a 17-year-old(!!!) of Thai-American descent, who wants to show the world with his first CD how we uphold the flag of rock and roll in today's world.

He manages to do this with four songs that are downright good. Even renowned producer Scott Humphrey (Motley Crue) was so taken by Pou completely self-orchestrated.

The CD starts fast and light/modern with the song "Falling Apart", which despite its aggressiveness, is very catchy. With "Breakaway" the young American presents a non-cliche ballad, which a band like Shinedown could have climbed the charts with. "California" is rather more aggressive, and is a bit reminiscent of Saliva. The closing of this varied EP is the title track "The 13th Evening", which, even though it is written with a beautiful hook, could have been from the Motley Crue album or Nikki Sixx's project Sixx:A.M.

What Pou Piam delivers here is a really high level and at no time listening to the album could you tell that it was made by a 17-year-old. Older, more experienced people have come out with garbage compared to this.

See/hear more at www.poupiam.com.

9 points.

"This is not a band, it´s a guy! A 17-year-old very talented boy who made all songs and played all instruments (except drums) on this record. Influenced by Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Motley Crüe, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Skid Row and great hard rock and metal bands he makes an aggressive hard rock that deserves to be heard.

This work is result of 8 hard working months and great opportunities and you should check out his profile at myspace www.myspace.com/poupiam and website www.poupiam.com"