Nashville outfit The Brook & The Bluff have delivered one thing quietly gorgeous with “Child Blue,” the fifth observe from their upcoming Werewolf album (Dualtone Data, March sixth). This isn’t people music making an attempt to reinvent itself, it’s the style doing precisely what it does finest.
Fingerpicked guitars arrive first, clear and unhurried. Then come these three-part harmonies the band have develop into identified for, stacking voices with easy precision.
The manufacturing sits again and lets it occur, resisting any urge to overcomplicate issues.
There’s a heat right here that remembers early Fleet Foxes, however The Brook & The Bluff carve out their very own lane.
The tune teeters between devotion and desperation. “It’s that sense of certainty you cling to if you really feel you would possibly begin to drift,” the band say, and that rigidity runs via each verse.
Vocals construct steadily, by no means forcing emotion. Delicate percussion anchors with out pushing ahead, while layered guitars present simply sufficient texture.
The true achievement? Realizing when to carry again. “Child Blue” settles right into a groove that feels comforting, applicable for a tune about loving somebody so exhausting it borders on irrational. Folks music that really sounds tranquil relatively than simply claiming to be.
