Music Review // Doc City "Welcome to Doc City"

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To have the artist named Doc City and then title the album "Welcome to Doc City" makes you feel as if Doc City is a place or a state of mind.   When listening to these songs, you will come to find out that is partly true.  Much like a movie or other art can really bring you into its own world and make you feel like a part of it, so does Doc City with their jazz influenced soul and R&B.  On some levels, this even reminds me of Jodeci Unplugged.

Within piano and the sax you can hear the words just pour out.  "When You Are Near" reminds me of the theme to "Titanic" for some reason.   But then we get these walking pianos like you might've heard in a "Peanuts" special that take us into "Did You Choose", which is a powerful song about standing up for what's right even if it doesn't directly affect you.  The song has spoken words in it which close out with a quote by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The pace picks up a bit for "Sweetest Taboo" and there is some rapping within this Sade cover.  The song appears again later on the album as a Dance Mix and the song "I'll Still Be There For You" also comes back with a reprise later on.  Through slower pianos on "No Goodbyes" (which is at the 5 spot but comes back for a Reprise at the end), "Your Ego Too" really feels like gospel with the keys and all.

"What I'll Do" is a duet and by the tenth spot on this album you start hearing the songs from earlier coming back.   That makes this album feel even more like a movie in the sense that you start off a certain way, really build up and then come back down from it by the end.  It just feels like it's telling a complete story and after you listen the whole way through you'll understand and enjoy it as well.