Dwight Twilley

With a holiday EP in 2004, another EP in January 2005, and a full-length album released at the same time, Dwight Twilley is having something of a renaissance. Indeed, it's easy to get the feeling that Twilley, like a number of artists experiencing a second wind, only needed an independent label to get the music rolling. Clocking in at 25 minutes, Walkin' on Water features two versions each of "Walkin' on Water," "47 Moons," and "King of the Mountain." In each case, the first version is the radio edit, the second, the album cut. Since the production and vocals are basically the same on both cuts, the only significant difference in each version is length. As was true of Twilley in the past, the songs are highly arranged pop featuring multi-tracked voices against a background of Spector-ish sound (guitars, bells, and drums). All of this works well enough, though listeners will probably lose interest as the longer versions of these songs run five- and six-minutes-long. The similar production from track to track also tends to run together, a quality that's made worse by placing the same track back to back. Twilley fans, however, will probably ignore these tendencies and be more than happy that a talented tunesmith is back in action. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., All Music Guide