April Moon is a pop-rock band with a folksy sound-picture. Their frontman and lead singer is Uwe Juras, who sounds like a cross between Crash Test Dummies and Matchbox 20. With solid musicianship in the form of Laura Werner on violin, Jans Koenig on guitar, Mike Bruehl on keyboards, Daniel Franz on guitar, Sebastian Ritter on electric bass, Joern Mildner on drums and Oliver Lanka on accordion, "Suddenly September" is an excellent debut album of original tunes and two covers (check out Susanne Vega's "Luka" and Nik Kershaw's "Wouldn't It Be Good" rendered April Moon style).

Although I liked the covers, I thought April Moon's own tunes were definitely much better, and my favourite was the title track itself. April Moon are definitely a band that have potential. Given time, and with a little bit more work, I'd say their second album could be a real success.

For more details, surf their website, at www.aprilmoon.de.

Kathy-Ann Tan

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