(2016) The Felice Brothers - Life in the Dark [FLAC,Tracks] {100.XY}

(2016) The Felice Brothers - Life in the Dark

Review:
The American Dream has come under harsh scrutiny of late, with politicians hailing its demise and some historians claiming it never really existed in the first place. Please forgive , then, for living out their own kind of American reverie on their latest studio album, Life in the Dark. On this new collection of plainspoken yet poetic folk songs, the New York-based group comes across as a ragtag bunch of storytellers fresh from NYC’s subway platforms (which happens to be where they got their start over a decade ago).
The more obvious reference points range from Bob Dylan to earlier folk singers like Woody Guthrie, and one thing’s for sure: These guys have steeped themselves in Americana and created some real red, white, and blue tea.
That said, they’re looking at the tea from a bit of a cockeyed perspective, with tracks like “Plunder” and album opener “Aerosol Ball” in particular scrutinizing the status quo. Songwriter and guitarist Ian Felice confirms as much. “This is an album about living in Dreamsville, USA, playing music with your friends and just letting it come into being like a radio transmitting messages,” he says. “Simply put, it’s about people playing music together in a room (at the same time) and trying to achieve a noisy precision of speech; looking at the world through the wrong end of a telescope and continuing our exploration into the perpetual apocalypse of daily life.”

That last turn of phrase comes into even clearer focus in the full-length video bassist Josh Rawson created for the album. With different bunches of found footage spliced together for each track, Rawson describes the video as “an orgy of home movies, volcanoes, cartoons, daytime westerns, wartime reels, and educational films that fall and bend and spill all ’round you.” We don’t make a rule out of participating in orgies, but this one sounds kind of fun.

Tracklist:
01 - Aerosol Ball.flac
02 - Jack at the Asylum.flac
03 - Life in the Dark.flac
04 - Triumph '73.flac
05 - Plunder.flac
06 - Sally!.flac
07 - Diamond Bell.flac
08 - Dancing On the Wing.flac
09 - Sell the House.flac

Summary:
Country: USA
Genre: Indie-Folk


Media Report:
Source                           : CD
Format                           : FLAC
Format/Info                      : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : ~743-1000 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth                        : 16 bits