Released: June 24th, 2008Folk-Rock is a weird thing. How can something be simultaneously acoustic & mellow and electric & rockin? I mean, Bob Dylan's electric stuff, although labeled folk-rock, was simply rock music by a formerly folk artist. So does folk-rock exist? Certainly. It was willed to life by a trio of Canadians, in a band called Elliott Brood.
Mountain Meadows roars to life with the driving opener "Fingers And Tongues" and doesn't let up for almost nine whole songs. Their heavy, working-man riffs are crafted out of small, acoustic blues-guitars run through a distortion pedal. Who'da thought, right!? And while you're pumping your fist to "Write It All Down For You" or singing along to the all-too singalongable closer "Miss You Now" you will know this is folk-rock. Mean enough to start a mosh pit, and down to earth enough to know you don't need to.
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folk-rock? i think you mean DEATH COUNTRY.
ReplyDeletealso, i fucking love this album. a lot.