David MOSS
"Terrain"
(LP. Compride. 1980) [US]
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EP Review: The Brother Brothers - Our Vinyl Sessions
With a full band at their back and their familial harmonies and adroit compositions at the fore, the Brother Brothers continue their evolution on Our Vinyl Sessions.
Adam and David Moss’ series entry results in a three-song EP with an expanded sonic palette that complements, rather than overwhelms, the identical twins’ roots as an unaccompanied duo playing acoustic guitar, fiddle and cello.
These elements - and the Brothers’ Everly-cum-Milk Carton Kids vocal sensibilities - remain on the Sessions’ renditions of “Tugboats,” “Stumbling Rose” and “Cairo IL.” It’s the muted colors of drums and electric six-string and bass guitars that give them extra sparkle and point toward the Moss Brothers’ future.
Grade card: The Brother Brothers - Our Vinyl Sessions - A
2/5/24
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Review: Smosh Games: Board AF, "Outbreak: Undead"
Embarrassingly, I was once a fan of Smosh – back when it was a bit cringey (post Pokémon Lip Sync, during the height of the Food Battle videos). But I am not ashamed to admit that from the moment it came into being, I was subscribed to Smosh Games.
While their other series like Game Bang, Grand Theft Smosh, and What’re Those!? were certainly ones I kept up with, my favorite has always been Board…
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another one because I was feeling a little silly today
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Album Review: The Brother Brothers - Cover to Cover
The Brother Brothers borrowed pages from several songbooks to create Cover to Cover.
Tapping everyone from Hoagie Carmichael to Tom Waits to the Beatles, twins Adam and David Moss get by with a little help from Sarah Jarosz, Rachael Price and Michaela Anne on vocals and a cast of musicians who add - atypically for the Brothers - drums, electric guitar and organ to go along with the more typical, mellower fare.
Like the Milk Carton Kids, the Mosses graduated from the school of the Everly Brothers and Simon & Garfunkel, which makes for ear-popping takes on Waits’ “Flower’s Grave” and Robert Earl Keen’s “Feelin’ Good Again.”
Carmichael’s “I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)” is a cappella with Price’s wordless and ethereal backgrounds providing the proverbial music, while Chas Justice’s “If You Ain’t Got Love” skews rock and Larry Sparks’ “Blue Virginia Blues” scampers on bluegrass. “I Will” hews closely to the Fabs’ arrangement, but like most Beatles covers is an exercise in futility.
Jackson Browne’s “These Days” and James Taylor’s “You Can Close Your Eyes” are among the other cuts getting the blood-harmony treatment.
Record No. 3 seems a little soon for an all-covers release and the music has a touch of multiple-personality disorder to it. Despite this, it’s hard not to listen when the Brother Brothers are singing.
Grade card: The Brother Brothers - Cover to Cover - B-
9/14/22
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