In his sophomore effort, Kevin Todd throws the rule book to writing a conventional rock album, as well as the preconceived limits of what one musician is capable of, out the window with what is truly an audacious explosion of sound and emotion.

Teletransporter, the fearless and powerful second album by the 17-year-old one-man-act, leaves no area of his imagination, as well as no genre, unexplored. With influences of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, classical, and indie folk, its amazing how so much of the creative world was encapsulated in just over 40 minutes of music.

The starting three numbers, Teletransporter (title track), The Way That I Do, and Down The Line, hook the contemporary pop/rock listener with high-energy beats, hummable melodies, and soaring vocals. Switching gears, Todd follows these up with the tranquil bass ballade, Light of My Life.

Todd then immediately turns 180 degrees and unloads four of the most uniquely creative displays of song writing and musicianship in his young career. Call To Arms, with it's ingenious 7/8 construction throughout the majority of the piece, marries the intricacies of a modern jazz hit with the 70's-style funk of your favourite old cops show in perfect harmony with a dynamite rhythm section, groovy wah-wah guitars, and trumpets so funky, they make the knees of even the most seasoned listener weak. This is followed by the aggressively rockin' political number, Strike!, and the experimental calamity of psychedelic sound that is Daniel's Song. Eerie acapella then leads you into the classical rock instrumental, The Horse and the Messenger.

After the surprising end of the 8th song's second movement, Todd begins to wrap up the album with the relaxing, emotional ballade, Sweep Me Away: a soothing display of harmonies and song writing that finishes with a smooth 3 minute fade, Sweep Me Away features arguably the greatest bass guitar performance of Todd's career; even with Todd being no stranger to giving bass a lead role in his songs, the over-3-minute soaring bass solo that wraps this song up in a silk bow really showcases the multi-instrumentalist's improvisational and musical prowess unlike anything else.

Finally, Todd concludes with the fun-loving, acoustic number called Lucky I'm Me. Finishing this extravaganza with the light, happy pop piece gives Teletransporter the perfect blend of catchy, powerful, and ingenious. Truly, this is an album to be reckoned with.