New project featuring Michael Carpenter and Mark Moldre (Hitchcock`s Regret) and which gives good reasons why two incredibly talented musicians can and shoud come together. Answer: Because they can make some incredible music that will stun Not Lame folks into a state of pure bliss.

"The Supahip is a tribute to the freewheeling pop-rock of 1968 to 1972, when pop was slowly but surely evolving into rock. Seize the World is also adamantly & unapologetically Beatlesque with fab songs like Like Love and Tulsa sounding like tracks John, Paul, George and Ringo just might have recorded after Abbey Road."-Night Times.

"..guitar-based pop gems, full of melody, hooks, harmonies and all that good stuff."-High Bias

"A few of the tracks on this album are immediately striking. "Satellite" features Moldre on lead vocals, and it`s a jangling guitar rocker on par with Matthew Sweet and Velvet Crush. This typifies the easygoing groove of the song. Moldre has a dusky, slightly sandpapery voice that is instantly compelling. The song has a nice pulsing bass line, drums that are in the background, with some nice fills, and there are interlaced guitars. The song has three good melodic ideas the Beatle-esque melody of the verses, and nice counter melody coming out of the chorus and then a wonderful bridge.. As is so often the case with music inspired by The Beatles, it is ironic that music of this quality cant get played on the radio. And Moldre and Carpenter wear their Beatle love (and like minded souls like Crowded House) on their sleeves. The album opener, "Like Love", has a strong Paul McCartney vibe. In fact, the melody reminds me a bit of "Band on the Run", though it goes in a bit of a different direction. This is terrific mellow pop. On "Falling Backwards", the Supahip conjure up a picked acoustic number that has a bit of a "Blackbird" meets back porch folk feel. This is one of a handful of numbers where the duo trade off lead vocals. This is where the Finn Brothers comparisons really ring true. The mixture of casual ambience and sure craftsmanship yields many wonderful moments. "Everything`s Alright" sounds like a tune that could have come off a recent Carpenter solo project, with a typically ebullient melody." - Fufkin.com

"4 stars. "-AMG.

Carpenter fans will recognize some familiar fabric in the pure pop magic that Michael Carpenter has embedded in his DNA and will not find "Seize The World" a stretch, musically. But this is two guys coming together making something different, creating and challenging each other, pushing forward, finding new directions and ways to get lost in the music-creating process. To call it `wildly successful` is an understatement.

Intrigued by the idea of spontaneously creating music in this day and age of over thought, over wrought, and over produced music, Carpenter and Moldre longed for the `good old days` of instant creation, and making decisions early in the creative process. They set about the idea of writing, recording and mixing a track... arriving in the morning with nothing except maybe some loose snippets of songs, and leaving with a completed track. The concept worked so well, and so liberated the both of them, that creatively they found themselves pushing each other into unexplored territory (for them.)

This album `Seize The World`, is the culmination of 13 days work over 14 months. It touches on the pop stylings both men revel in in their own projects, but the scope of this album ranges from McCartney-esque ballads (in fact late-era Beatle-isms abound all over the place here), through to indie pop rants, passing through country rock, epic pop and even a few delicious grooves. It`s a classic rock album, in the purest sense of the word. "STW" is packed filled with wedding-cake melodies, haunting, thrilling hooks and the colliding shadings two incredible musicians who happen to be disarmingly outstanding harmonizers.

"Seize The World" also includes a monumental cover of Nik Kershaw`s 80`s worldwide smash, `Wouldn`t It Be Good`! And, boy, is it COOL! In keeping with the somewhat retro spirit of the project, the album includes the full 12 song stereo album, plus as a bonus, 10 of the tracks mixed in mono (they would have loved to have fit the whole mono album, but they just couldn`t squeeze it on!) Rather than being just collapsed stereo mixes, the mono versions differ, sometimes quite dramatically, from the stereo mixes. The idea behind this is that the stereo mixes utilized the classic `wide` stereo technique.. with instruments panned hard to one side or the other, exagerrating the sound and impact of each instrument. The mono mixes on the other hand are much leaner, and punchy.. straight down the centre for maximum impact. It gives the listener an opportunity to enjoy 2 very different perspective on this very individual project.

"8 out of 10.. Of course, both Carpenter and Moldre are renowned for crafting high-quality songs of the broadly power-pop variety, yet while the band`s self-confessed `Hyper-retro-sonic` recording process and the distinct `60s vibe of most of the material on display can`t be ignored, it still sounds distinctly fresh in the clinical 21st Century and also finds both our heroes successfully broadening their sonic palettes en route.. OK, admittedly it can be a bit `spot the reference` as you encounter an authentic "Revolver"-era rhythm section (the nagging "Satellite") or a so-close-it`s-shaving-it "Pet Sounds"-era multi-harmony (jostling for space with what sounds like a zither on the country-tinged "Falling Backwards"), but even wearing their hearts so blatantly on their sleeves fails to cheapen the cut of The Supahip`s smart suit in the main.. What is certain, though, is that "Seize The World" is good enough to hijack a sizeable number of admirers who will readily sing its` praises from the nearest available rooftop. I`d suggest you listen to what they have to say."-Whisperin And Hollerin.

You`ve read all this? My Dear Boy/Girl, stop looking. Listen and get this gem right onto the shelves of your collection which deserves this slab of musical transcendence-via-convergence.