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Bridge Of Flowers: A Soft Day's Night
ByThe music is experimentally confessional, like a 17th century Samuel Pepys diary modernized to take into account drugs, disillusionment, and a pandemic. Wait, those are the same troubles that troubled Pepys' London. The music draws from early Pavement and The Velvet Underground. Guitarist and vocalist Jeff Gallagher channels Marc Ribot's Rootless Cosmopolitans, albeit a more rocked out version. Like Ribot, Gallagher favors a matter of fact truth telling. "Year Without Summer" and "Vinegar And Salt" are open wound descriptions of loss, while the story of little "Tambo" and his drug trip ignites a catchy anthem. The music sounds like early demo versions of songs by the 1980's band The Feelies. Cleaning it up though, with a producer, engineer, and some filters would certainly destroy the vitality of Bridge of Flower's message.
Track Listing
Vinegar and Salt; Empty Room; Aloe Vera; Tour Rider; Year Without a Summer; Poetry in Motion; Tambo; Brittle; Mirage; Never.
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Jeff Gallagher: guitar, vocals; Jonathan Hanson: guitar, keyboards; Shane Bruno: bass; Chris Wojtkowski: drums.
Album information
Title: A Soft Day's Night | Year Released: 2021 | Record Label: ESP Disk
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