This album blows me away!!
Paul Gilbert is one of my favorite technical guitar players. He plays with clean technique, and has beautiful phrasing and an almost classic sensibility. Though he got his start as a Shrapnel Records-styled shredder in the 80s (super fast, flashy, Yngwie-influenced, metal), his love of 70s pop music influences his current musical direction.
Vibrato is a great album that reflects his diversity as both a guitarist and songwriter, yet each song is distinctively Paul Gilbert. It's overall very progressive and jazzy - like a cross between Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, the more progressive side of the Allman Brothers, Return the Forever, etc.
An oddball album that maybe isn't his most popular, it's not only one of my favorite Paul Gilbert albums, but one of my favorite non-metal albums of the 2000s.
I don't like to throw out superlatives at the risk of sounding like I'm praising everything, but I can comfortably say that this album is genius!!
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