I’m not the Felice Brothers’ biggest fan it’s not that I don’t like them but more I ‘appreciate them’ more than anything else. I wasn’t sure what to expect the way opening track Candy Gallows starts in a choral church like manner was it a Christmas song? No it’s an A-Typical Felice Brothers quirky noir drenched love song of sorts that builds like an epic poem set to a spectacularly and beautifully droll Country melody.
Normally with an album of this magnitude I like to let it mellow, playing it several times over a couple of days so I can unravel any mysteries in there before putting pen to paper … but here, in the week before Christmas I simply don’t have the time, so after one ‘play’ over breakfast – here’s my excitable thoughts. Just as I was getting over a bad cold in the middle of my December break my friend and #1 Americana Radio presenter, Mike Ritchie got in touch to ask if I knew that The Felice Brothers had just dropped a ‘secret release’ via Bandcamp … I didn’t. Scratch Away the Veneer and Discover a Dark Musical Antidote To The World Around Us
