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Angus Stone
Broken Brights (Nettwerk)
Angus Stone's second solo venture outside of the duo with his sister Julia sees the Aussie multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter handling production chores too.
River Love builds progressively from slow and pretty to a lively infectious jig complete with Irish flute. The Wolf and the Butler is a peculiar country love song. The Blue Door is a murder ballad with an obvious Johnny Cash guitar influence. Monsters is a banjo-driven tale of internal struggle. Bird on a Buffalo is catchy acoustic folk-pop with airplay potential.
Sounding at times like Bon Iver fronting Mumford & Sons, Stone's unique vocal style and off-kilter phrasing is truly spellbinding. Stone weaves a lush, atmospheric sonic tapestry held together with cryptic lyrics and washed in aural textures dictated by roots inflected instrumentation courtesy of guitar, mandolin, harmonica, Dobro, organ, cello, violin and of course those old standbys the pinball machine and, uh, space machine! 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö
-- Bruce Leperre
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 21, 2012 G4
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