The Horrible Crowes - Elsie (iTunes Version)

 

Whether it is his side project the Horrible Crowes or his band the Gaslight Anthem, it sounds like Brian Fallon. Just as the Anthem’s 2010 album American Slang indicated, Fallon has a love of atmospheric folk ballads in need of being saved from his punk group. On tracks such as “Sugar,” “I Witnessed A Crime,” “Cherry Blossoms” and “Blood Loss,” Fallon aches like he’s Paul Westerberg in the bloodied streets. Collaborator Ian Perkins lurks in the background on bass and slide guitars while Fallon takes centerstage. “Go Tell Everybody” and “Crush” extend the Springsteen comparisons, the former with a vamping rhythm and both with a dramatic rasp. Where the Anthem play with unerring precision, the Crowes let things boil gradually and naturally. Romeo is surely bleeding for the noir-scape of “Ladykiller,” where Fallon takes Greg Dulli’s Twilight Singers and injects heartland rock. “Go Tell Everybody” breaks out the horns for a celebration of one man’s hardened cynicism. “I Believe Jesus Brought Us Together” evokes the serious passion of Mark Lanegan’s best work.
 

Track List:
01 Last Rites
02 Sugar
03 Behold the Hurricane
04 I Witnessed a Crime
05 Go Tell Everybody
06 Cherry Blossoms
07 Ladykiller
08 Crush
09 Mary Ann
10 Black Betty & the Moon
11 Blood Loss
12 I Believe Jesus Brought Us Together

 

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