Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
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Artist: Felice BrothersEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-07
Music Label: Team Love Records
Soundtracks:
- The Big Surprise
- Penn Station
- Buried in Ice
- Chicken Wire
- Ambulance Man
- Sailor Song
- Katie Dear
- Run Chicken Run
- All When We Were Young
- Boy from Lawrence County
- Memphis Flu
- Cooperstown
- Rise and Shine
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Music Review: American Music at its Finest
Rating: 5 Stars
The Felice Brothers fall into a category of Americana that I think of as "Heartland Gothic." That is, they use traditional Appalachian folk forms and mix them up with bits of New Orleans and dark concepts to create a sound that owes as much to Tom Waits and other musical explorers as it does to traditional American music. It helps that they seem to be the only current practitioners of my newly coined genre. They're unique.
Their new release, Yonder Is the Clock, takes everything that was right about their previous release, The Felice Brothers, and hones it to near perfection. There aren't just a bunch of long stretches of balladry, but rather a mix of tempos which help keep the sound consistently interesting. The ballads that are here (especially 'Sailor Song') create a dark, moody atmosphere that, while a bit unsettling, is never unwelcoming. The uptempo numbers like 'Penn Station' and 'Run Chicken Run' alleviate the dark tension with their rollicking, ramshackle playing and hoarse, almost-but-not-quite-rock vocals. However, the uptempo numbers still maintain the themes of the album--namely, hard living, occasional violence, and death. Somehow, this doesn't get depressing, possibly because it sounds like the brothers are enjoying themselves so much on the fast ones.
Vocally, there's not a good technical singer in the bunch. However, the vocals are consistently folky (some have called them 'Dylanesque,' but you might as well call them 'Steve Forbert-esque'), rough and tremendously human. They're able to do what the good vocalists have always done--bring the audience into the world of the song. And they do it very well.
Lyrically, it's chock full of good lines and well constructed songs, with good dark humor cropping up often, especially in the faster numbers ("She's the fairest of them all/She loves her Adderall"). If there's a clunker here, it's the ode to that baseball mecca "Cooperstown." It's slow, and I found it the only time during the album where my attention wandered. That said, I'm sure baseball fans might love it on its own merits. Not being a big fan myself, a lot of the references probably went right by me.
Yonder Is The Clock fulfills the promise of The Felice Brothers--this is wonderful music, tightly played, deep in concept but welcoming in execution, and with just enough outside influence creeping in to keep them from being an empty genre band. They transcend that here, and Yonder Is The Clock will hopefully start the clock on their wider recognition.
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