Like A Metaphor, Rob Szabo's third solo release is both a retrospective and an announcement.

It revisits and reinvents several of the best songs of his 13 year recording career, and continues his tradition of combining Precision Songcraft™ with striking performances that feature a mix of pop-sophistication and bare-bones intimacy that can prove disarming.

 

The 11 tracks on Like a Metaphor, range from the restrained grooves of "Beautiful" from whose lyric the album title was taken, to "Breaking Even" which comes out of the gates as quirky mid-tempo pop and morphs into a full-production epic. Rob's acoustic guitar and voice dominate. A cast of musician/friends support the proceedings in the way that only musician/friends can.

The album comes with a bonus DVD that features 3 Videos: the stunning Disney-esque animated mini-feature for "Breaking Even", the dark live-action vignette for “No One”, and the beautifully shot tour video for “Good Son”. The DVD also includes a short documentary of Rob's winter 2005 tour. The DVD was directed by Cal Brunker, currently working on the story team for the new Dr. Seuss film Horton Hears A Who.

 

TOURING
In 2005, Rob played over 100 dates in Canada and the U.S., from Toronto to Vancouver to Fort Saint John,BC ... from San Francisco to New York City to Washington D.C. ... and everywhere in between.

Travelling alone in his van across the continent from his Toronto home across the Canadian prairies up to the Alaska highway, down the west coast to San Francisco, back across the U.S. mid-west—that was his 2005 summer tour: over 20,000 kms of driving. His van’s odometer currently reads 425,000 kms. He hopes to get it half a million by the end of 2006 …

Rob is currently touring in Ontario and the Northeastern U.S.

 

HISTORY
A “gifted musician” with an arresting voice, Toronto-based singer-songwriter Rob Szabo has been recording & touring for over a decade. He has released 7 CDs, fronting various bands, including Plasticine & The Groove Daddys, and has sold 10,000 + units independently and toured Canada numerous times appearing on National and Regional radio/tv and print. Rob’s debut solo CD A Battery Of Tests was released in 2003. His 2005 release on Hamilton,ON-based indie label Basement Bar Records was Late Bloomer/Sore Loser, a Double E.P. which has since sold out.